Interview: "Bacon and Firth consider comedy dates" (Contactmusic)

Firth wishes he and Bacon could find the nerve to visit select comedy clubs with their act.
He tells Canada's Toronto Star newspaper, "It would have been fun to have the time and the guts to do that sort of thing.
"We fantasised about getting an act together. We had a pretty easy crowd (on set) paid a lot of money to laugh at us very loudly. I don't know how we'd go down with a hostile crowd. But they had us convinced that we had something going.....more 

Interview: "Firth and Bacon upset about NC-17 rating" (Contactmusic)

"The actual sex is not explicit. I've seen much, much, much more explicit sex on the shelves of Blockbuster (video/DVD store). I think there's a discomfort in the drama, which shows that the drama has been successful. And that's exactly what we were looking for.....more