• Filming Locations: outside Dublin, Ireland

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I play a feisty little monster, a 17-year-old spoilt brat - it's great!

It's a romp set in Ireland in the 1780s about two young girls who get abducted. It's very sexy. Full of horse riding, stuff like that...

I was so excited about The Abduction Club. I've been playing the innocent young virgin for a long, long time, always the wronged maiden, suppressed and innocent. And suddenly this role came along that was so much closer to me. Anne's a tomboy, she's adventurous, she's upbeat.

I was just desperate to go out at lunchtime and fly kites with the boys but the costume department said: 'No, you can't. You'll get your dress dirty.' Matthew and Daniel complained that it was cold and they had to trundle through this mud. I said: 'Try it in a pair of high heels and a corset that's restricting your waist by five inches!

ViewLondon.co.uk

It's Sophia Myles as Anne who really stands out though, eclipsing the nominal heroine (Alice Evans) and stealing every scene she's in, marking herself out as a talent to watch in the future... To sum up, then, The Abduction Club is an undeniably silly, but nonetheless enjoyable slice of romantic nonsense that's definitely worth seeing for Sophia Myles' performance.

Empire

Lapaine is suitably dashing and Myles makes for a relatively rebellious role model.

Tiscali.co.uk

Evans and Myles fare slightly better as the feisty femme fatales.

Shadows on the Wall

This same approach extends to the performances, which are realistic and true to the time, yet accessible and involving. Despite the predictable turns of the plot, we fall completely for the romantic and political entanglements, as far-fetched as they may be. The success lies in the central foursome: Lapaine and Rhys are outrageously charming swashbucklers; Myles (a Kate Winslet lookalike who holds her own) and Evans are gorgeous and seriously independent women. Great fun.