Having nearly upstaged Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire, pint size actor Jonathan Lipnicki may now be passed over for a pretty cute mouse in the kid flick Stuart Little, due Dec 17.

"Girls won't go 'Ewww!' like 'I'm so scared!'" Says Lipnicki, nine, who co-stars as Geena Davis's son in the adaptation of E.B. White's children's classic. "It's more like 'Ahhh, he's so cute!'"

So is Lipnicki himself scared of the wee rodents?

"Nope I have three," he says. "One of my mice was Stuart, but then I noticed Stuart was getting really fat. One day I looked into Stuart's cage and there was 13 babies in there. Stuart was a Stuette!"