Interview: "Sex on legs! Me?" by John Millar (The Daily Record)

While you can imagine the Firth children one day getting a lot of fun from seeing dad making a fool of himself in the pie fight, Colin is quite content to keep his children distanced from his career.
He said: "I'm not particularly anxious for my youngsters to see my work early on. Until they start to get really curious about it all I will leave it. It's a bit odd watching dad running around in a film....more

Interview: "My Firth, my last, my everything" (Colin on The Last Legion) (Empire Online)

"We’re in a bit of a father and son role there as well really," says Firth. "It’s Ancient Rome you see, so I’m appointed to guard this last, child emperor at the moment where the whole thing collapses. Apparently this is true, that the Goths, when they finally did sack Rome, spared the life of the Emperor because he was so young. We don’t know any more, but the writer just supposed, 'Well, what about the guy who was sworn to protect him? Is he going to carry on protecting him even though he’s not the Emperor any more?' It’s about that kind of relationship.....more 

Interview: "Film stars leave crowds spellbound" (The Press Association)

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British film stars Emma Thompson and Colin Firth left crowds spellbound at the premiere of their magical new movie Nanny McPhee.

The actors wowed fans that gathered in Leicester Square in London's West End, performing the now-obligatory walkabout to greet the hundreds outside the cinema.

In the family movie Thompson, 45, plays a warty, severe, black-gowned nanny with magical powers who joins the family of recently widowed Firth and attempts to tame his unruly kids.

The actress who looked stunning in a blue dress by designer Tashia and Jimmy Choo shoes said: "It was liberating having moles for this part. I always find it more strange being glammed up."

Commenting on starring in a movie with a large cast of children and some animals, the actress, who also wrote the screenplay for the movie, joked: "It was really good but working with the donkey was tricky. But the most difficult thing of all was blancmange and porridge - trying to get them to do what you want."

Her co-star Firth famed for his TV role playing Jane Austen's Mr Darcy and parts in the Bridget Jones films described his experience of working with the young cast.
He said: "They do warn you not to work with children. There are risks about it however delightful they are that they're not going to be working along the same wavelength as you," he joked.
Asked how he felt about another actor playing the Mr Darcy in the new movie of Austen's book Pride and Prejudice movie he replied: "I don't own that role. I enjoyed it once in 1995 but if somebody can take it and run off with it, good luck to them."

The movie contains a host of British stars, from veteran actor Derek Jacobi, stars from Gosford Park and Gladiator to character actresses Celia Imrie and Imelda Staunton, who played the lead character in Mike Leigh's film Vera Drake.

Firth was well liked by his co-stars with Staunton making the wry comment: "I've known Colin a long time, we have a lot of fun. But he's got too much talent for my liking."

Interview: "Colin Firth: the charmed life of a late-blooming heartthrob" by Liam Lacey (Globe and Mail)

"I've always been taught that without resistance, you can't develop -- whether it's your muscles or your voice or your acting ability. It's a tragedy really when creative people get so rich and famous that people open doors and smile all the time and give them everything you want. Now I've worked in America a lot of times and by far the majority of actors [there] are very well-grounded, [with] enormous senses of humour and very professional. But I've seen star behaviour. It's not even the star's behaviour, but watching it being connived at by people around them: not rolling their eyes, not questioning, not laughing when they hear something particularly pompous, all of which is destructive to the person who's being fawned on.....more