Jonathan Ross: It seems really you couldn't have chosen a more different role... because "Jesus' Son" is about as far away from "Sweet and Lowdown" that you can get...

Samantha Morton: Reading the scripts that were sent to me at the time... at the bottom was this "Jesus' Son" with a book and so I read the book, and there was no character in it. So I read the script and it was the best script I’ve ever read ever in my life... and then I just got in touch with my agent and said I’ve just got to audition for this, is there a chance? I just knew I had to play her.

We were talking earlier about certain movies glorifying certain aspects of modern life, drug use in particular, and the character you play is a heroin user. How do you avoid glorifying something like that?

When I watch "Jesus..", it doesn't glorify drugs in any way. It's a truthful, honest portrayal and drugs isn't the main point of the film either. It's FH's character, that's what he's called, and his confusion of life in the 70s and being a man and who he is and bumbling along. Just looking at it, I thought it's very fresh, it looks fantastic, it appears to be quite a low budget movie...

Very low budget film...

Ok, why aren't they being made over here? I'm just getting so tired of seeing second rate romantic comedies and bad gangster films, which just glorify violence with no point worth making being made. And yet, the American independent film world seems to be interesting and different.

What do you think the problem is?

I think you've got to have a chat with all these accountants the run the film companies, if they read a magazine and that actress is on the cover, they want that actress and the scripts that I see that are remarkable, that are challenging and brilliant, not necessarily controversial, they are scared of, because they don't understand it, because they've not already seen it.

So we won't be seeing you as a lap dancing gangsters moll

They wouldn't want me anyway, I just am not Denise Richards in that way!

Good luck with "Jesus' Son" it deserves to do well, thank you.