Los Angeles, July 23 (IANS) Actress Kate Beckinsale, mother to teenage daughter Lily Mo Sheen, approached action star Bruce Willis, a father to four girls, for advice about keeping her daughter's boyfriends at bay.

The 38-year-old has been raising Lily with director husband Len Wiseman ever since her split from the girl's father Michael Sheen in 2003.

I remember Len talking to Bruce when Len did 'Live Free or Die Hard', and I think Bruce did some terrifying things when his daughter started having a boyfriend.

Len and I asked him, 'When Lily starts having boyfriends, will you come over, too? We will all stand on the doorstep and scare them', starpulse.com quoted Beckinsale as saying.

However, if Willis is ever too busy, Beckinsale is confident her new role as an assassin in upcoming sci-fi film Total Recall will be enough of a scare tactic.

Maybe now I don't need Bruce. Now that I am a villain, I can go solo, she quipped.