Doesn't Julianna Margulies have a charmed life. In ER, she got to play doctors and nurses with the dishy George Clooney. Now she's cosying up with two of Ireland's hunkiest sons, Pierce Brosnan and Aidan Quinn, on the Dublin set of Evelyn.
At lunchtime on Wednesday, during a break from filming on location at Castleknock College in Dublin, the former Nurse Hathaway had time to muse on her uncanny good fortune.
"I am a very lucky girl," cooed the raven-haired babe just out of earshot of her gorgeous co-stars. "It's hard to choose between Pierce and Aidan - every woman should have my problem."
She is still good friends with Dr Ross. "George is like my brother. Any time I need some advice, I call George. He is the best."
Evelyn, directed by Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy), is based on the true story of an Irish man who in the 1950s fought Church and State to win back his children, who had been sent to an orphanage after his wife walked out. Suave Navan man Brosnan plays the lead, with Quinn (Michael Collins, Legends of the Fall) as his Irish-American lawyer and Margulies the love interest.
The English-born beauty is bringing a bunch of old friends over for a girls' weekend shortly - the men of Ireland have been duly warned.
As for the women of Ireland, take care when you're out and about not to stumble and fall into the impossibly blue eyes of the impossibly sexy Aidan Quinn. He is currently residing in Ballsbridge and gets around town the old-fashioned way - on foot.
"I love Dublin," he told me. "Great pubs, great restaurants. But the traffic is terrible!"
Last weekend he brought the family down to his childhood home town of Birr, Co Offaly.More trips are planned to Co Clare and Co Donegal in the coming weekends.
"I feel very comfortable here," he said wistfully. "I'd love to live in Ireland, but the missus Sicilian-American actress Elizabeth Bracco won't, and she has the veto. She loves Ireland, but all her family are in New York, so that's where we'll stay."
When his company, Irish Dream Time, wraps up Evelyn at the end of this year, Brosnan has just a brief break for Christmas before hamming it up again as 007, everyone's favourite spook.
The Martini man has been shaking and stirring the staff at the self-service Avoca cafΘ in Co Wicklow, his regular lunch spot when filming at Ardmore Studios, with the vexing question: should James Bond ever have to queue?
I'm sure he's pleased as long as he gets his greens.
After the film set, it was off to the Old Jameson Distillery in Smithfield, into which the cream of the culinary crop had poured for an awards ceremony and the launch of Georgina Campbell's Jameson Guide Ireland 2002, which lists the best places to eat, drink and stay.
Avoca director Simon Pratt and head chef Leylie Hayes collected An Bord Glas's award for the "Creative Use of Vegetables".Other winners included One Pico sommelier Julien le Gentil, Ballymaloe chef Rory O'Connell, l'Ecrivain co-owner Sallyanne Clarke and Jeanne Rankin, who runs the Cayenne in Belfast with her TV chef husband, Paul.
Dr McDaid, the Minister for Tourism, addressed the audience and then joined everyone for a traditional Irish lunch in the Jameson restaurant. As Adrian Keogh, marketing director for Irish Distillers, remarked, only a French chef would try to seduce the Irish with colcannon.