Liz reveals her favourite sin

Liz Hurley may have the body but she has to battle to keep it that way. The shape that she has never been shy about revealing and which has seen her steal the limelight from other stars at many a movie premiere, is constantly under threat from a healthy appetite and a strong desire for junk food. "Of all the seven deadly sins I'd rather be gluttonous than anything else, I think," the 35-year-old actress said, talking about her role as the Devil in her latest movie Bedazzled.

"I'd have to wish that I could literally sit down all day long eating hot dogs, French fries and popcorn and never gain an ounce. I'd like to eat until I have junk food coming out of my ears, and stay svelte."

Obviously, it is a temptation she manages to resist. In character in the movie, however, she delighted in tempting co-star Brendan Fraser who plays a suicidal techno geek given seven wishes to turn his life around when he meets up with Hurley's very seductive Satan.

In exchange his character, Elliot Richardson, agrees to give up his soul.

"So at any given moment I would pinch his bottom, squeeze his cheek, sit on his knee, let my strap fall off deliberately just to see Elliot freak out. That seemed like the best way to get him to sell his soul to me. I mean he was just the perfect victim," she said. "I would look at him and think, how could I torment him in this scene when he's not expecting it? I don't know why, it just brings out some naughty streak in me. Brendan, as a person, is quite shy in real life."

Most of the costumes Hurley wears in the movie were her own choice and she uses the clothes - or lack of them - to keep Elliot on his toes.

Thehigh heels she wore also had a purpose. "Five inches would have been a modest day. Most of them were six or above I think. You see, Brendan's a giant, he's like six-four. Harold Ramis (the director) is a giant, he must be six-three, and I hate being the short person so I insisted.

The character was a bit of me I have to say but obviously quite exaggerated. I'm quite well behaved in real life," she said.

The premiere was quite a nervous time, she said, and not just because she had to walk the gauntlet of demonstrators outside screaming abuse at her for breaking the Screen Actors' Guild strike.

She still had not seen the movie from start to finish. "I was given a tape but I was so nervous and stressed I had to watch it on fast forward," she confessed.

Bedazzled is released in Britain on 10 November.