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