"The spandex that we were put in bulges in all the places you don't want it to bulge and resolutely refuses to bulge in the places you want it to bulge," Firth said.
''I tried every form of fruit and vegetable available to me in my trailer, every culinary item, juicers, blenders and I thought 'well no, it's the spandex so it's obviously not me I'm fine,' and then I walk into Jim, hung like a waterbuffalo.''
''I tried every form of fruit and vegetable available to me in my trailer, every culinary item, juicers, blenders and I thought 'well no, it's the spandex so it's obviously not me I'm fine,' and then I walk into Jim, hung like a waterbuffalo.''....more
Showing posts with label A Christmas Carol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A Christmas Carol. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Interview: "Colin Firth on A Christmas Carol" by Simon Brew (Den of Geek)
Do you really hate Christmas?
No, I don't! I've just said [at the press conference for the film] that there's something that happens every Christmas that brings out the Scrooge in everybody! That's fair enough. There's always some person you don't want to hear singing a novelty song in the now increasingly three months leading up to Christmas. Please, never let that be me!
Christmas used to be one special day.
Now it's become three special months! And I'm complicit in that this year! It's only the 3rd of November, and I'm going to be switching the lights on. I have to say, though, how much of a Scrooge do you have to be to not get some thrill of pleasure from switching on the lights on Regent Street. It's fantastic. I know it's early, but hey, Disney need a good run! [laughs]....more
No, I don't! I've just said [at the press conference for the film] that there's something that happens every Christmas that brings out the Scrooge in everybody! That's fair enough. There's always some person you don't want to hear singing a novelty song in the now increasingly three months leading up to Christmas. Please, never let that be me!
Christmas used to be one special day.
Now it's become three special months! And I'm complicit in that this year! It's only the 3rd of November, and I'm going to be switching the lights on. I have to say, though, how much of a Scrooge do you have to be to not get some thrill of pleasure from switching on the lights on Regent Street. It's fantastic. I know it's early, but hey, Disney need a good run! [laughs]....more
Friday, October 30, 2009
Interview: "Dickens’s Victorian London Goes Digital" by Dave Kehr (NY Times)
“A couple of technicians flew out to Shepperton Studios and started to take data on my face and body,” recalled Colin Firth, who plays Scrooge’s nephew Fred in the new film, “which meant standing in my underwear on a platform while something that looked like a laser beam scanned me up and down. I turned around and there was a kind of a gray, clay figure on a screen of me, with all of the shapes and contours. And then they did something similar with my face. They had me do a million different facial expressions while a camera took pictures of me.
“Then a couple of months later I was in Los Angeles having more stuff like this done,” Mr. Firth continued. “You go into rooms with lenses on every surface of every wall. They give you a heavy spandex suit covered in dots that are read by some sort of beam that shines across the room you are in. This room is not called the set, but ‘the volume.’...more
“Then a couple of months later I was in Los Angeles having more stuff like this done,” Mr. Firth continued. “You go into rooms with lenses on every surface of every wall. They give you a heavy spandex suit covered in dots that are read by some sort of beam that shines across the room you are in. This room is not called the set, but ‘the volume.’...more
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