London, Dec 16: Kristin Scott-Thomas has made her first foray into the world of modelling, as the new muse of Giorgio Armani. The 41-year-old actress will star in Armani's spring/summer 2003 campaign.
But she reckons that will be the beginning and the end of her modelling career. "I'm not a beanpole who stands about for a living, so I'm not quite sure what is expected," she told the Sunday Times.
"This whole modelling malarkey is so odd. Put me in front of a normal camera and I'm fine, but being surrounded by all these fashion people makes me insecure. I'm not sure whether my bottom looks big in these trousers. And then I keep feeling so old."
Nerves aside, Armani is clearly pleased with his choice of model. Having initially chosen the English Patient star for her "magnetic presence" ("because it is entirely natural and never forced"), he claims he also loves "her British calm and candour - plus that wry sense of humour that Italians would love to imitate, but are unable to."
And while the new campaign, rumoured to be worth in the region of six figures, will afford Thomas plenty of free Armani clothes, even its photographer, Paolo Roversi, agrees that perhaps she is more suited to the silver screen. "I don't think Kristin likes to be a model," he says. "She likes to act, to escape."


Bureau Report