Anna Paquin says she still hasn't watched all of The Piano, the film for which she won a best supporting actress Oscar in 1994.
The reclusive actress, who rarely gives interviews, told Vanity Fair magazine: "I only saw the first 15 or 20 minutes. Then the R-rated aspects kicked in and
little Anna was kicked out of the room. So I couldn't really tell you what I think of the movie."
Paquin, who turned 18 last week, has starred in several Hollywood movies since The Piano. Her latest is X-Men, due to be released in New Zealand this month.
The magazine said Paquin planned to leave the Los Angeles home she shares with her mother, Marie Brophy, and enrol at Columbia University in New York.
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Eddie Murphy and the Klump clan feasted at the American box office when it opened last weekend. The comedy sequel Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, starring Murphy in multiple roles, debuted as the No 1 earner, raking in $US42.7 million ($93 million) over the weekend, according to studio estimates.
It was Murphy's best-ever opening, topping the $US33 million for Beverly Hills Cop 2 in 1987 and the $US29 million for Dr Dolittle in 1998.
Murphy reprises his roles as portly, brilliant Sherman Klump and his lowbrow family, along with Sherman's obnoxious alter-ego, Buddy Love.
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Actor Kenneth Branagh is in talks to play Ernest Shackleton in a multi-million dollar dramatisation of the explorer's Antarctic expedition.
Director Charles Sturridge is keen to land the star for the extraordinary tale of survival which will be made for Britain's Channel 4 and begins shooting next summer.
Shackleton and his crew survived for two years after their ship the Endurance was trapped in the region's ice floes.
Sturridge made the adaptation of the bestseller Longitude, screening on TV One on August 13.
