Sexy Rachael Stirling is wearing the trousers again for her latest TV role.
She stars alongside The Office's Martin Freeman in ITV comedy Boy Meets Girl.
And it's the fourth time the lovely actress will play a bloke.
Rachael, 31 — who is the daughter of former Avengers' star Diana Rigg and tycoon Archie Stirling — plays a fashion journalist who swaps bodies with a geeky DIY store worker after an electrical storm.
Rachael really did her homework. She said: "I have now played four male parts in my career. But I watched everything that featured transgender roles.
"Martin and I worked incredibly hard at getting the physicality and voices right.
"We even video-taped each other and copied each other's mannerisms.
"It was very challenging.
"I used to do a full day of filming, go home and then do two hours of homework before the next day!" She found acting as a man fun but testing.
She said: "Waking up in someone else's body would be a nightmare and I hope we've told that story.
"When you're placed in a foreign body, you have to get used to a different mindset, voice and environment.
"But it's as much about gender as class and it's quite dark as well as funny." Rachael previously played a lesbian male impersonator in TV drama Tipping The Velvet and a transgender male- to-female in an episode of detective series Lewis.
And the star, who spent her childhood between Scotland and London and studied history of art at Edinburgh University, drew on another Anglo-Scots beauty when journalist Veronica — inhabited by Freeman's character Danny — is bedded by a man.
She said: "Veronica has a boyfriend and there's a scene where they make love and I had to convey Danny trying to cope with the situation by thinking of his fantasy woman, Keira Knightley."
Rachael — who was recently in the new series of Minder with Shane Richie and on cinema screens in historical drama The Young Victoria, where she played the Duchess of Sutherland — campaigned for her dad when his party Scottish Voice stood unsuccessfullyat the 2007 Holyrood poll.
And she had another lesson in politics in the new comedy, which sees socialist Danny — based on writer David Allison's Glaswegian dad — having to cope with Victoria's upwardly mobile tendencies. She said: "Veronica is a well-to-do fashion journalistclimbing the social ladder.
"Danny is at the other extreme — he works in a DIY store, is a bit of a geek, a conspiracy theorist and fantasist.
"He has never grown up but is full of passion.
"In Veronica's body, Danny sets out to find the person he once was, while trying to pass himself off as Veronica.
"We see her world from his point of view.
"As Danny, he lived in a grotty bed-sit but he sees how the other half lives and is seduced, even though he's a socialist."
