Kate stars as an evil wife

Kate Beckinsale has admitted she would have been offended if husband Len Wiseman had asked her personally to play an evil wife in his new film Total Recall.

The couple were joined on the red carpet by co-stars Jessica Biel, Colin Farrell and Bill Nighy at the premiere of the sci-fi action film directed by Wiseman at the Vue cinema in London’s Leicester Square.

Beckinsale plays Farrell’s beautiful wife, who turns out to be a villainous spy.

She said: “Luckily I just got sent the script from the studio and I read it. So I didn’t have to hear him say ‘I’m thinking of this psychotic evil wife and I’m thinking of you’. But I’d have probably been offended”.

Biel wore a daring white Giambattista Valli white dress and pink shoes while Beckinsale wore a black Donna Karan gown.

Biel, who plays a rebel fighter, said: “Fighting Kate was so much fun. Really nerve-wracking, of course, because her husband’s behind the monitor making sure I don’t accidentally punch his wife in the face. And I didn’t, luckily, and it was all good and we had a really fun time”.

The film is not a remake of the 1990 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone but a re-imagining of Philip K. Dick’s science fiction short story, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.

Farrell plays Douglas Quaid, a factory worker who, plagued by strange dreams, visits a company that promises to turn dreams into real memories. But the process goes wrong when he learns he is an undercover spy and finds himself on the run for crimes he has no memory of committing.