On behalf of all the Kate Mara fans out there, I want to wish Kate a very happy and wonderful 26th birthday.   Maybe next year the site can run a birthday project of some kind.

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Luckily, Kate does have an advantage over the others: she has a very sexy Scottish accent.

What does it mean to be Scottish?  According to the film Stone of Destiny, it means drinking lots of beer, hating the English and never giving up on your dreams. Set against the lush landscape and detailed architecture of the British Isles, Stone of Destiny is a charming tale of dreamers and national pride. The film follows a group of Scottish college students as they attempt to steal an ancient rock known as the “Stone of Destiny”  from those darn English. While the stone itself is nothing but an odd-shaped rock, it  represents the glory of Scotland – and how England has taken that away from them (insert castration metaphor here).

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But I really don’t think it has to do with whether you get along with them or not. It’s really just magic on set. And it has to do with the kind of character you’re playing, too, and how you interpret it.

Sexy, sensuous, subtle: There is a romantic frisson between the characters played by Kate Mara and Charlie Cox in Stone of Destiny, the inspirational true story of Scottish nationalists who steal the relic back from Westminster Abbey as a gesture of Scottish pride in 1950.

There was also a romance that bloomed between the American Mara — who also played the 19-year-old edition of Heath Ledger’s daughter in Brokeback Mountain — and the Englishman Cox — who is the charming leading man from Stardust.

It was obvious they were a couple at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, when Stone of Destiny delighted audiences as the closing-night gala. The two were planning a cross-country drive together in the U.S. following the filmfest, Fox told Sun Media.

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The craziest thing was knowing they were so young when they did this huge thing.

For Kate Mara, the accent was on getting the burr just right to play a young heroine of the 1950s Scottish nationalist movement in Stone of Destiny.

The petite brown-eyed redhead had no trouble looking the part of a Scottish lass, but sounding convincing was crucial to her.

“It was really hard work,” the 25-year-old actor told the Star as the Toronto International Film Festival wound down last fall. Stone of Destiny was TIFF’s closing-night film. It opens here Friday.

“Being in Scotland and being surrounded by a whole Scottish cast (was intimidating), but everyone was so helpful and supportive,” she said.

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