He stars in Wanted alongside Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman, and now James McAvoy has revealed that he aims to be the next big action hero.

"I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking man's action franchise like Bourne," the 29-year-old Scotsman says in the August issue of Details.

"I think inside all actors, there's a kid who secretly yearns to jump off buildings and say 'Yippeekayay, motherf****r."

But the Atonement star admits that he also wants to have fun.

"Hugh Grant is f***ing great and he's funny," says James.

"I like romantic comedies. I've been in one and I loved it. I got to show off and I got to be a d**k. It's always fun to play d**ks. That's why I loved Last King Of Scotland - I got to be such a w****r."

James isn't particularly Bourne-like, having led a relatively quiet lifestyle throughout his 20s, and deciding that he didn't like to go out.

"All of my friends got so drunk they couldn't even walk, let alone dance, and you just stand there going, 'So what am I going to do?'" he said.