Has Satan ever tempted you?
[Laughs.] Well, my theory is you have to walk with the devil a bit to be able to renounce him. Otherwise, if you've never experienced a bad feeling, it's pretty hard to reject it.

I get tempted every day--every day! Maybe envy is just under the surface at all times in most of us. It's very destructive. I think sins stop you from concentrating on yourself, and they take away the attention from one's own faults, so you can't improve and have a better life--you just obsess about someone else's.

Do you mean you could envy other actresses or models?
Anything! Envy is amazing! You could envy someone who has a better metabolic rate than you, while you're stuffing yourself with sausages.

Which sin is the worst?
Well, the Catholic Church thinks pride is the worst. Apparently, that's what got Lucifer kicked out of heaven. I had to write a piece [about sin] for Marie Claire. So, I rang up my mother's local vicar and asked him. They are nowhere in the Bible. There's a list of opposite virtues. So, we don't know who came up with them.

In the movie, you grant Fraser's wishes in order to coax him to sell his soul. Do you have any desires for which you'd sell yours for?
Me? Well, I don't think I'd dare. When you're young, like 17, you'd wish for a happy life. I think we all know now that you can't get happiness through any kind of fakery. But on the shallow level, my God, I'd like being able to drink as much alcohol as I want and not have a hangover. Or stay up all night and look fabulous in the morning. It would be nice to consume 12,000 calories a day and stay blade thin.

So, what is the situation with you and Hugh? You're still being seen together.
[Laughs.] We still lurk together. We're still cuddly together. We've just renegotiated our deal with Castle Rock for two years to produce films together.

Sexy Satan: Hurley has Fraser bewitched, bothered and Bedazzled.

Are you back on the singles market? Can men sell their souls for you?
Yes! They are actively encouraged to. But [Hugh and I] are still best friends. He bought a new house four doors from mine. I still talk to him every day.

Is it awkward?
No, not at all. I couldn't bear not to see him

What kind of pickup lines do guys use on you?
Boys are just scared of me, on the whole. They have to be falling over drunk to come anywhere near me.

What's the worst?
No, really, I've very rarely been chatted up in my life, for some reason.

Think you intimidate men?
After this movie, I'm going to have trouble getting another date ever again--unless they're drunk! I've been out and about, and I've dated a few people, but it's hard.

You mean hard to meet men in Hollywood?
I've always formed my friendships at work--when someone makes you laugh and you know them. I've never in my life met anyone at a bar or a party. I don't go out. Who does? It's bizarre.

Then why break up with Hugh after 13 years?
I think after being together for so long, neither of us really wanted to go a stage further. Neither wanted to get married. Neither felt we should have children. And then we thought that must be weird after 13 years.

Hangin' by a thread with Myers in The Spy Who Shagged Me

So, you do want to get married eventually?
Well, I never really have. But I've always thought if I did get married, I'd want to have children.

Why is it so easy to fall in love on a movie set?
Well, it seems to happen a lot. I have a theory about most people who make movies. At the root, there's something irresponsible about our lifestyle. I met Hugh on a set, and--it sounds ludicrous, but it's true--it never felt to us like we'd been together for 13 years. To a banker or a teacher, 13 years would be an incredibly long time to date without moving things any further. But because we were always off doing a movie, we never had a day-to-day life. That's true of most show-business people.

Sadly, time just slips through your fingers. For a long time, we were behaving like dating 21-year-olds--which was my age when I first started dating him. In some ways, mentally, one doesn't move on that much. I'm frighteningly immature at 35.

Have you always felt that way?
I was a very late developer, so I was physically immature, extremely self-conscious and insecure for a long time. My sister, at 10 years old, was five-foot-five and ravishing. I was like the midget child sulking beside her. I was still less than five feet when I was 15, and I had no boyfriends at school.

Dark side: With Ben Stiller in the drug-fueled Permanent Midnight.

Everybody else would hang out by the telephone box, or wherever kids hang out, and I'd have ballet lessons. They'd be sniffing glue, and I'd be tap dancing. I was the last girl to develop, the last girl to wear a bra, the last girl to kiss someone.

Do you remember your first kiss?
There was this boy I fancied in science. We exchanged lingering looks over Bunsen burners and finally had a kiss outside of a bicycle shed. I didn't know what to do. I was repulsed! It was absolutely horrible. I didn't kiss anyone for three years.

My sister and I practiced kissing when we were little. My mother caught us, and she was absolutely outraged. My sister's friend said when people kiss, one person blows and the other sucks. So, we got in her bed every night and practiced blowing and sucking.

Did you do the blowing or the sucking?
I was blowing. It didn't work. We made noise. It was a disaster.

And now you're a sex symbol.
No, I don't think of myself that way. I can see it when I'm done up to be in a movie or a magazine, but I often think of myself as an immature child.

Hurley on Hugh: "We still lurk together. We still cuddle together."

Have you found living alone to be strange?
I've never had a constant companion. My life is lurking in a hotel room with too many suitcases. My heart's a little sad, now that most of Hugh's stuff has been moved out. But I'm having it redecorated.

What's the best part of being alone?
No guilt if I want to go to bed at 7:30! But the best thing for a girl is when you're with somebody, you always have to eat dinner, because boys refuse to skip dinner. Also, I know I'm very untidy. In my experience, boys hit 30 and they become so anal. Hugh is phenomenally tidy now, and he wasn't when I met him.

Sounds like you guys are living the plot of the old classic, Private Lives, where a couple divorces and each remarries, but they reunite while on their honeymoons, decide it was all a mistake and run off together. How about a remake?
It's funny you'd say that, because as a matter of fact, that's one of our projects. I've always wanted to do a modern update of Private Lives, and I think we'd do it quite well together.