News: Adrian Lester

The classically-trained actor and member of the Council of the Royal Acadamy of Dramatic Art (though now probably best known for the BBC’s con-artist drama Hustle) has got a number of minor roles in potentially big movies coming up to follow his supporting turn in this week’s Scenes of a Sexual Nature. Nost notable are likely to be social work drama Case 39, alongside Renée Zellweger, and the sure to be massive Spider-Man 3, where he will play a research scientist trying to find a cure for one of the film’s big baddies. Will there be a returning role for him if the stupidly successful franchise makes it to a fourth movie? Too early to say…