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Colin Firth: Good morning!
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Foxy: An ongoing subject we've had this morning of... about great,
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sort of, movie and TV characters and, obviously, Mr Darcy has come up as such a romantic character...
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I can't believe it was nineteen years ago.
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CF: Yeah, I can believe it, actually...
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Foxy: Can you? CF: Yeah...
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Foxy: We've done a lot since.
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CF: I mean, it does feel like a long time ago. Foxy: We've done an awful lot since!
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And probably, I should think, the thing that really launched you, worldwide!
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CF: Well, I feel... I don't know, I can't measure those things.
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I kept thinking, I've been launched and then something would happen
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and everyone would say he's been launched
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and it's as if what had come before had never happened.
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So, that's happened episodically,
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which is probably a good thing, really: get a re-launch every so often.
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Foxy: Well, other people enjoy making the movies and, obviously, that's, you know,
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where you've made your fantastic living from,
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but they would also come back and do the west-end stage.
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CF: Hm...
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Foxy: We've had a lot of great actors, actually, treading the boards.
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Would you do that, would you like to be back on the stage?
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CF: It's... it's been too long, I think, and I would like to, yeah.
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I don't really... I'd love to do the west-end, I'd love to do Broadway,
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I... it could be anywhere, really. Erm, but, er...
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Foxy: But what would you like to do?
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CF: I don't know yet. Thoughts have come and gone.
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I've had the conversations, the moment sort of slips away sometimes,
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but I'm seriously thinking about it now, and I think something small probably,
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I like small theatres, I like the... you know,
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the places where you can still do things with a bit of intimacy.
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The last play I did, which was – age ago now! – was at the Donmar Warehouse...
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Foxy: OK! Such a great place!
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CF: It is an absolutely wonderful place and that's...
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that's the kind of venue I'd be attracted to, I think.
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Foxy: OK. Well, we'll talk more in just a moment. Colin Firth's our guest, it's 'Magic Breakfast'.
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Foxy: Right, Magic, we are back with Colin Firth this morning.
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We are now getting into that crazy season: BAFTAs were announced this week, of course,
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the BAFTA nominations were announced this week and then, of course,
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Oscars come and what have you... Do you find it a silly season?
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CF: There's silliness involved, there's no question about it!
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It's delightful, er, it's not very, er... it's also stressful, I think,
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CF: for the people involved in it... Foxy: Is it?
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CF: Yeah, I mean, in both, the good and the bad.
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People are excited... they sometimes get a bit too carried away and too excited.
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Sometimes, I think, one of the nice parts of it is that you are...
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you find you know most people involved and you run into people... and, er...
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and it's quite nice, sort of, to take refuge in old friends in amongst all the silliness.
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Foxy: Having won an Oscar for, obviously, 'The King's Speech', did it make life any easier,
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going into it, having, sort of, at least you've got one now?
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CF: Perhaps. I mean, it's... still, I haven't been to too many of them since then, yet,
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so I don't really have much of a measure of it.
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I mean, I wasn't going to the show, you know, the awards shows that much beforehand, really.
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Erm, so, I haven't got very much to compare it to.
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You're supposed to do it all again and present the year after that and I did enjoy that, actually,
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because there wasn't any pressure on me: there wasn't... there were no expectations,
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there was no nomination, there was no edge-of–your-seat moment,
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you just, you know, you get up there and handing over the gong to someone else...
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Foxy: Nice!
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CF: And there's something quite nice about that.
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Foxy: If you take 'The Railway Man' out of the equation and just looking at the other...
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there have been a lot of great films over the last few months,
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actually, who do you think is gonna end up doing well this year?
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CF: It's very hard for me to say because I haven't seen enough of the films yet...
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because I've got children of twelve and ten, so I can talk about 'Despicable Me 2', erm...
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Foxy: Good, isn't it? CF: Yeah, it's great...
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CF: You know... so, yeah, I can take you through most kids'... most of the kids' films...
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Foxy: Yeah, I've got twelve, eleven and seven, so, I'm sure,
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we've seen all the same movies in the last few years...
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Colin: an absolute pleasure to have you in! Best of luck with this
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and I did thoroughly enjoy it, but it was... a warning: if you go and see this film,
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Foxy: Take some hankies, it's a weepy! CF: It is.
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[Transcript by DoS, 14 January, 2014.]