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