Eric Stoltz has nabbed a key role in the big Rob Roy movie starring Liam Neeson, and is now shooting in Scotland.

"I'll be Liam's right-hand confidante" in this historical drama, says Stoltz. Yes, he'll have to kilt up.

Red-haired Stoltz produced and stars in this fall's Sleep With Me, with Meg Tilly. "It's not the sex romp the title might promise," he says. "It's more a romantic comedy about a couple who get married and have to rethink their behavior . . . issues like fidelity, lust, whether you're still free to flirt and explore an attraction to another person."

Stoltz, 32, isn't married yet - "that I know of," he quips. "I occasionally fantasize about it." But he is in a four-year relationship with Bridget Fonda.

This fall he's in Quentin Tarantino's reportedly horrifying movie Pulp Fiction, as "Lance the heroin dealer, a happy-go-lucky part," he jokes. "I'm one of the few who don't wield weapons, except my hair (long) and a large needle." Tarantino's violent Reservoir Dogs, he suggests, is just "a good warm-up" for Pulp.

However, Pulp may be less offensive than Killing Zoe (Tarantino produces). Stoltz is a bank-robbing ex-junkie and takes off Julie Delpy's clothes.

In the Little Women remake with Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon, he plays the tutor who marries Meg (Trini Alvarado). "It's a decorative role. I stand around with facial hair. But it's a terrific cast - a great deal of estrogen. I adored them, I never wanted to leave, I wanted to be a part of their family." And it's "the only G-rated film I've ever been in."