Atonement star James McAvoy has refused to work with his wife Anne-Marie Duff in case they become a ‘target’.

McAvoy, 30, is married to Scottish actress Duff, 39, and they will not work together like other doomed couples such as Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck.

The wedded couple appear together in new movie The Last Station but do not play opposite each other in the flick.

He said: “We’ve been offered a hell of a lot of parts playing opposite each other in films and TV and we just turn them down.

“If you do work together, you put yourself up – you make yourself a target and all of that. We’re very keen not to do that.

“But in The Last Station. we don’t play opposite each other in the film.

“We don’t really act with each other hardly at all.”

New Moon star Kristen Stewart isn’t close to everyone on the set of the movie series, her co-star Billy Burke has revealed.

Burke, 43, plays Charlie Swan in the films, and his on-screen daughter Bella is played by Kristen Stewart, 19.

He admitted that he isn’t as close to Stewart as some of the other cast members are.

He said: “I wouldn’t say we’re close. We get along really well. We don’t have a hugely close relationship that we hang out all the time, but we do hang out on set.”

Asked who he is closest to, he added: “I actually have dinner and drinks more often with Rob [Pattinson] and Ashley [Greene]. My wife is close friends with Ashley, and Rachelle Lefevre is also a good friend.”