By Debbie McGoldrick

JENNIFER Aniston needn’t worry that her beau Vince Vaughn has lots of spare time on his hands while he’s in London. Last weekend Vince popped over to Belfast to film a documentary on one of the city’s famous attractions, the murals painted by members of both the Republican and Loyalist communities.

Vaughn made the trip to the North while on a break from the project he’s working on in London, and he met politicians from both sides of the divide. Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams was interviewed by the star of such hits as Wedding Crashers and The Break-Up in front of the mural in Andersonstown of Kieran Doherty, a hunger striker who was a member of the IRA.

Vaughn then went in the opposite direction of the city to meet David Ervine, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party. “We did a spot of filming in Dee Street around a mural depicting people coming to the shipyards,” said Ervine.

“I was explaining to him that years ago we would not have a mural like this because it would all have been about politics and our divisions. I told him that, for me, the mural was the epitome of the change process that is going on in Northern Ireland. The murals are changing.”

Ervine said the Hollywood A-lister is just an ordinary guy who couldn’t have been nicer to deal with.

“There’s no question he’s genuinely interested in the subject,” Ervine reckons. “He was telling me his interest was sparked on a previous visit when he took a black taxi tour from the Europa Hotel. He knew nothing about the murals before that trip. I have to say it was really interesting meeting him.”

Local residents who encountered Vaughn were also greeted warmly. “Vince Vaughn was really friendly, really open. He talked to the locals, signed autographs and had a bit of craic with them. He seemed really interested in the murals,” one of them told the Citybeat radio station.