ACTRESS Laura Aikman may be known to most youngsters as the lead of CBBC's The Mysti Show or to comedy junkies as Rosie, the long-suffering girlfriend of loveable Keith Lemon in Lemon La Vida Loca, but this week she is hitting the big screens, starring alongside British rock legends Status Quo in new action film Bula Quo.

The film, which features Laura as Caroline, a reluctant intern who gets the job of looking after the troublesome pair, also sees Status Quo frontmen Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt who become caught in a game of cat and mouse after strumbling across an illegal gambling den in Fiji.

Speaking about her role in the action-comedy, which hit cinema screens today (Friday), Laura explained what it was like to work with the rock pair and shoot in the tropical paradise of Fiji.

She said: "It was amazing - I didn't know what to expect working with such legends and on the first day I don't think they even knew I was in the film with them.

"They were really nice but they constantly talk in rhyming slang - making up their own version so it was impossible to understand what they were saying half the time!"

Filming bean in April last year but was hindered by a cyclone and Laura said: "Fiji was beautiful but the cyclone happened just before we got there so a lot of our filming locations were ruined - awash with people's belongings."

For 27-year-old Laura, who moved from Hertfordshire to Kilburn six years ago, it was her first action film, featuring James Bond style speed boats, jet skis and golf carts, and she was initially nervous about some scenes.

She said: "I had quite a few fights I had to film and I had to break a vase over someone's head - he was a local, not an actor - and we only had one special breakable vase so I could only do it once. My face in that scene is completely real - shock and horror."

Laura has been acting for 10 years and is following in her father's footsteps - revealing he worked as a stuntman which encouraged her into acting.

She added: "It was so fun and the best kind of work that I could ever see myself doing."

Laura took part in a special Q&A of Bula Quo at the Reading Showcase yesterday (Thursday).