Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Interview: "We're too embarrassed to help needy, says Firth" by Alexia Baracaia (The Evening Standard)


"People don't want to get involved. I think it's embarrassment, which is a British quality. I remember Ben Elton joking about an unattended package on the Tube, saying people would probably sit there hoping it would go off rather than face the embarrassment of asking if it belonged to anyone."

He told Radio Times he had a similar experience while filming scenes in Kings Road for the 1989 Falklands war TV drama, Tumbledown.

He said: "I had half my brain hanging out and was one-handedly wheeling myself across the road. Everyone pretended I didn't exist.....more 

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