(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Kristin Scott Thomas "can't get anything done" since becoming an international movie star, because people are too intrigued by her fame.

The British actress gained international recognition in the 1990s for her roles in Four Weddings and a Funeral and The English Patient.

Kristin insists her "star" status still baffles her, and often wonders why she can't lead a regular life.

"When I was making big movies and was 'a star' I felt almost afraid of audiences, I felt very defensive and it was always, 'Love me, love me, love me,' but that turns into other things," she revealed in an interview with the LA Times.

"People see you on such a big screen or they see you in their living rooms and for many of them it creates a weird, ambivalent relationship with you as an actual person. You go into a shop and ask for something and they just stare at you with their mouth open. You can't get anything done!"

Kristin, who has worked in French cinema since the 1980s, enjoys both French, British and American film roles.

The 51-year-old star, who has starred in Tell No One, and Philippe Claudel's I've Love You So Long, finds her roles in French movies far more fun because the female characters are more complex.

"The French scripts have these slightly loopy women it's much more fun than just standing there on screen and being arch and bitter," she said.

"I don't want to be bitter on screen. I'm bored with it. I don't want [the marquee of my] career retrospective to be 'The Cinema of Bitterness.' 'The 'Cinema of Regret,' maybe, but not bitterness. There's something about the way Anglo Saxons look at women my age. There's something about faded beauty and regret in all of the roles. There are no roles for women my age that are like, 'Bring it on!'" (C) Cover Media