I am heartened when Alice Eve tells me why she knows the restaurant where we’ve just met. “It’s the only place round here that serves hard liquor,” she says, settling herself in the booth across from me, a mass of English blondeness. We’re in Venice, on the Los Angeles coast, within walking distance of the small beach house that she and her boyfriend, the young English poet Adam O’Riordan, have been renting for the past couple of months. Evidently not a girl who adheres to an alcohol-free, body-conscious Hollywood diet.

Which is a relief. Only weeks ago, all 50 states of the union were plastered with huge billboards for the film She’s Out of My League, including a huge one on Times Square, in New York. They promoted the 28-year-old actress as a “Hard 10”, an im­possibly beautiful, totally adorable, super-sussed, apparently unattainable woman young men could only dream of. Except for the hapless, geeky airport security guard she surprisingly falls in love with. Eve has even been acclaimed by Maxim magazine, which recently put her on the cover in a tight black swimsuit, proffering volcanic cleavage, as “Hollywood’s hottest new star”.

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Who would have thought that Captain America has connections to Carrie Bradshaw?

A well-placed source tells me that British actress Alice Eve, 28, is the front-runner to play Peggy Carter in the much chattered about upcoming superhero movie The First Avenger: Captain America.

You may not know Eve by name (yet), but…

She’s the blond beauty in the recently released She’s Out of My League. She’ll also be seen next month in the second Sex and the City movie playing Charlotte’s nanny.

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