Quite surprised and amazed, Frances O'Connor landed a coveted role in Steven Spielberg's upcoming film, A.I. which is based on a treatment by the late Stanley Kubrick. "I met Spielberg a couple of weeks ago," she said.

O'Connor continues, "He'd seen Mansfield Park and this thing I did for the BBC called Madame Bovary. So we met, and we had a second meeting with Haley Joel Osment, and they offered me the part after that."

O'Connor will be playing the part of Osment's mother in the film. She then describes her moment of surprise, "I was also auditioning for a whole bunch of other stuff at the time, and then this kind of came out of the blue. It was a nice surprise and it just happened so fast I haven't really had time to let it sink in."

The development of A.I. is still a top secret project. And obviously, O'Connor isn't allowed to discuss the futuristic film, sworn to an oath of secrecy. "Only a handful of people have actually read the script" she explains. The other co-stars of the film include Osment and Jude Law.