Interview: Love at Firth sight by Anwar Brett (original source: Film Review)

"In a way I think I should just say, 'Okay, I hate talking about it'," he sighs. "But I never do have to talk about it unless a journalist is asking me those sort of questions. "It's only when I get into a room with a journalist that they'll say, 'you really hate this don't you? You want to shake it off?' But I don't. It doesn't do anything for me one way or the other, so it's fine....more

Interview:"Ladies swoon over Colin Firth" by Louis B. Hobson (original source: Calgary Sun)

"Friends kept calling to tell me I was in Helen's columns and the buzz was out that I would be playing Mark Darcy in the film before anyone ever contacted my agents," recalls Firth, who is amused in a British sort of way about his sex-symbol status."It's utterly bizarre to hear people discussing me in sexual terms. It's not something I'm used to. As an actor, I'm far more used to experiencing failure, rejection and failed expectations."He concedes he's glad "I didn't achieve hunk status until I was 35. I know it would have been very difficult to deal with if it had happened my first time in film....more

Interview: "Bridget Jones Star's Secrets Revealed! Mr. Darcy Has Never Read the Diaries" by Roger Friedman (Fox News)

Colin Firth has never read Bridget Jones's Diary. Well, he has, sort of.
"I've read every word of those books," Firth declared to me over a very funny and agreeable lunch Tuesday at Gabriel's restaurant in New York. Firth is most forthcoming, and not the stuffed shirt he usually plays on screen. In other words, it is acting after all. 
But more about not really reading the books upon which the hit movie in which he co-stars are based.....more

Interview: "Twice Shy" by Susie Steiner (Guardian Unlimited)

The global love affair with Pride And Prejudice (it was huge in the US) brought with it persistent press attention, not least when it emerged that he had been romantically involved with his leading lady, Jennifer Ehle. "They only discovered it after it was over. Livy and I had started up a serious relationship for quite some time. They get your number and phone up, pretending to be BT, then ask, 'Are you and your leading lady in love?' You let them write about it, and all this invented stuff comes out. It's astounding, breathtaking, what gets invented.....more

Interview: "Colin Firth" by Monica Agelorius (Unreel.co.uk)

This is in Islington... a pub, an Italian deli. I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive. I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments. You go to the local market; my wife is Italian, she'll go to a fruit stall and say "Can I try one of those cherries?" And she'll be told: "If you want it, you buy it." And that's the attitude you get in the market. It's not always there. But I can't imagine someone saying that in Rome. You work most of the time in England.....more