The fun was mostly non-stop except, of course, for dealing with that damned donkey, a stubborn ass of an animal who refused to do director Kirk Jones' bidding when the humans dressed up a barnyard of animals in people's clothes for a climactic scene of hijinks. "I'm sure Kirk is still having nightmares about the donkey," Firth says with a chuckle.
That Firth is laughing at all today is refreshing. The last time we sat down for an interview -- at the Toronto filmfest in September when Where The Truth Lies made its North American debut -- Firth was staggered with fatigue.
He had flown in from Morocco, where he had been shooting an action-adventure movie. The media that day, including your Sun representative, were all fest-tired, too.
"It makes you realize," Firth says, recalling the Toronto experience, "that almost everything you read about movies is written by strung-out people about strung-out people. Everybody's jetlagged and wired and over caffeinated." He finds that odd and amusing.....more
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