Colin Farrell was reportedly left red-faced after 70-year-old actress Eileen Atkins boasted that she recently rejected his desperate requests for casual sex.

The "Cold Mountain" actress revealed that the Irish star had spent nearly three hours begging her to sleep with him. But despite his stunning looks, she turned him down because he is 42 years her junior, reports the Internet Media Database.

"Three weeks before my 70th birthday, a simply stunning, gorgeous big film star came into my hotel room for sex without strings. I spent two and a half hours saying no, but it cheered me up fantastically," said Atkins who had met Farrell during the filming of "Ask The Dust", which will be released later this year.

"I said no, because he said, 'The reason you won't do it is because your body isn't as good as it was when you were young, isn't it? But I don't care about that'.

"But I'm too proud of how I looked when I was younger. My body is still the same weight, but it's all distributed in a different way," she explained.

The actress initially intended to spare Farrell the embarrassment by keeping his identity secret. But her agent said: "I can confirm that it is Colin Farrell that made the advance."