Warren Beatty back in cinemas after 15 years

Warren Beatty is standing outside an early screening of his new film, Rules Don't Apply - definitely not a Howard Hughes biopic, he wants to make clear - discussing his connection to the famously reclusive industrialist and movie mogul.

"I never met him," he says, grinning. "And I met everybody."

At 79, and 15 years since his last film, the man affectionately known as "the pro" is back. Beatty, whose exploits on and off the screen made him an unqualified Hollywood legend, has finally made the Howard Hughes film he's contemplated on and off for 40 years.