WILLIAM BECK

Darts, Swimming and Medicine are just a few of the careers that the voracious mind of William Beck has put his hands to in short space of time before he settled into acting.

"Every time that I tried something, new I'd enjoy it for about eight weeks and then decide to do something else." He explains, "and then somebody pointed out that it takes about eight weeks to shoot a film. That seemed like quite a convenient sort of way of life."

William moved to London with very little cash and a lot of determination and wrote to several directors and agents looking for work.

"When you actually get down to it and you don't have any money and you're saving up for chewing gum then you have to break out of it and get a job. And I managed to do it fairly quickly."

First up was getting his balls cut off in Guy Ritchie's Snatch. Then a spot of cross-dressing for a Super Noodles commercial and then his role as Reece in Attachments.

"Reece is a very naughty boy." Williams relishes with a smile. "Reece thinks the whole dotcom thing is a bit like a gold rush and he doesn't expect it to last forever."

And is Mr Beck anything like his character.

"I'm not really like Reece at all, I don't think. I wouldn't wear half of his shirts."

William has recently worked with Michael Caine and Michael Keaton on the film 'Quicksand'. He's also starred alongside Jack Davenport in 'Gypsy Woman'.