Confidence, reliability, masculinity. Mind and feeling. Pride and no prejudice. It is this conceptual row comes to mind when meeting with Colin Firth... But such views about himself, he does not seek to match.
First, I think he chose a strange place for a meeting. Docks of St. Catherine. The old docks, turned into luxury housing, offices, and galleries. Narrow streets, red brick bridge, sticking out of the walls of the ancient blocks, which is now only a decorative function. A brass plate on one house says that it was here looking for inspiration for his realistic descriptions of London lowermost Charles Dickens and it is here, well about this place was the home of a Jew fragment from the Soviet and the lair of the villain bill Sykes. Here Oliver Twist desperately dodged the dirty once alleyways, trying to escape from his unenviable fate of orphans from the London slums... Here in the middle of the block, I see... "Funny such a place, a narrow window, followed by three tables and a counter. "A name? "Name... "lunch spot", it seems. Have dinner there people from the local offices".
Actually nothing strange. And a resolute refusal to meet in a more pathetic places, and select hidden behind the facade of London's chic obscure café on three tables with sandwiches, and the only waiter, twenty years and with the dreadlocks, not to make events of star visitor, the visitor, in a black sweater and scarf, the typical habit of the British laid my jacket on the high bar stool and sat on it... All of it now I don't see the Exotica. In Colin the Firth nothing from Prince. But there is a softness and unexpected cordiality. Seeing me, he gets up - in fact, at his height he only needed to keep pace with the crossbar, and we go and sit at a table. He gives the young man with dreadlocks to move his Cup cocoa. Don't worry, says. And carries it himself. He explains that he had met here with a friend that works in the same office next, and had dinner here. Tradition, and it really thirty years has used since the student days. "The owners of the institution was changed, and we still visitors. Usually strictly on the contrary. But, you know, this is London. Here cling to habits," explains Firth. In his case - the case of fame, Oscar and all that accompanies it, is not really usually. And I would have continued to wonder if he hadn't sat in front of me with his attentive strange light brown eyes, with his mild-mannered, with its typical British way of speaking, as if exhaling words. He's just easy and natural as breathing, the person drawing the legs and ODINAFRICA back is not very comfortable chairs.
Dates
1960 Born in the UK in a family of teachers David and Shirley Firth.
1995 the Role of Darcy in the BBC miniseries "Pride and prejudice" brought him world fame.
1997 Marries Italian Libya Giuggioli, and they have two sons, Luke (10 years) and Matteo (8 years).
2001 Debut as a writer with a story "the Department of nothing" ("The Department of Nothing").
2007 Opens a shop in London environmental goods Eco Age.
2011 Role in the Thriller Thomas Alfredson "the Spy, get out! " (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy).
- You've played most of the characters are aristocrats, sometimes blood, but almost always the spirit. A role for which you received an Oscar - and at the role of king. In reality you feel like traits?
"I... hardly. I am not angry. Nervous, but discreet... I always dreamt about me said, "He's silly, but it is invisible". Because we are all dumb sometimes, but for some I will say... I characteristic of some social autism... I'm not very comfortable in the crowd. I skinned to death his sons kadaloram. I'm a maniac punctuality, accuracy and responsibility. The wife is the only person who manages to get me to stay close to reality, but a colleague Everett (Rupert Everett is a British actor, known not only for star roles in film and theater, but also extremely ironic, even caustic interviews. - CA. ed.) says that I am a walking illustration of the vitality of the play by Oscar Wilde "the importance of being serious". That is how important it is sometimes to be frivolous. That is not to be me... I always get into comic situations her fingers stuck in stavne own window and you have to call a completely unknown neighbor who liberates me, but then says: "And in shorts and Slippers with Mord hippos you don't look like a movie star"... before the play I'm so excited, I go out for a breath of fresh air through the technical output, door slams, and I Oberau building is three hundred meters, I go from the main entrance past the ushers, make their way through the crowded lobby, sweating... Like a complete idiot, in the costume of the EIGHTEENTH century, with stupid "sorry, sorry, let me go"!. I do not think that all this constitutes the image of the aristocrat. Even Ghost. In the best case - aristocrat-British jokes or works of Woodhouse. In the best case, I Bertie Wooster. And then the whole is composed of irony and self-irony, and my seriousness...
"Yes, but how do you explain why we feel it is the aristocracy and nobility?
You just used.
- Do looks not matter? Because you have exceptional external data.
- You want to ask, do not feel whether I'm handsome? It's funny: my appearance is absolutely neutral - face withstanding any expression, depending on what effect I want to achieve. Now, however, I know that in me there really is something attracting women. But it's definitely not what I see in the mirror. Still, I believe, it's your habit to these my "noble" roles - all of these Mr. Darcy, the lords of the Essex. In the TV series "Pride and prejudice", as you know, I came out of the water in the clothes - male version of "show, wet t-shirts". The very next day after this series on TV British ladies massively obsessed, and I began the interview by saying, "I will Say that I'm a sex symbol, and get up and go". Because really I have nothing to do with Mr. Darcy. With Darcy from "Pride and prejudice", and Darcy from "the diary of Bridget Jones". They are typical, even mythological Britons. And suffer the typical national male complexes that you should never show his feelings, cannot openly Express themselves, need to be significant, did not talk much to exude reliability. To observe the so-called dignity. To save face. And I am made much simpler: like smile, don't like it, frown, frustrated - not hide, happy - laugh. Make silly mistakes. I much closer Bridget Jones with her constant "proscame". And I mean a lot - have you noticed? And all about yourself - Darcy would directly condemned.
- There is an apology - you answer questions...
- Yes, there's no excuses. Actually I don't like to talk about myself. There's nothing particularly interesting. And there is no special credit to me in your interest to me. Everything that happened to me from the first role to Oscar, pure luck. Some of these cases say about the combination of skills and luck. And I am convinced - clean, pure luck. I know the actors of my classmates just colleagues - who, alas, is unknown, but they are much more talented than me, and many who are known. I assure you, it's not ostentatious modesty. And no modesty - I am sure that success is the result of successfully circumstances. I was lucky and all. It's perfectly natural for me to assess what is happening. I have never craved a lot. I always have that. Now even a bit too much. Not my scale, I don't size. I mean... the amount of publicity. It is fully capable to deprive of reason, even if some of you had. Here, however, the saving that I am English. It is in America can act like a star, require special attention, and special trailer on the set, and personal assistant... There, with their cult of the stars, swallows. And we in Britain... not that you will not swallow, and you and vyplyunut!
"But you've already more than well-known actor - you don't manage to get used to?
But until recently, I almost didn't play the main roles. And I liked it. I played the role of good, honest secondary. The first time I was the only person that the Director wanted to see in his film, most recently in "the Lonely man" by Tom Ford. And before that always sample approval, has always been someone that claimed a role as I. It's OK. It should be. But I've always worked, I never had problems most of the actors - the problem of payment for the apartment. I was told: you have the same role, your aristocrats, " and I replied: but I don't know what the unemployment, the scourge of our shop. In addition, competition disciplines. It happens: you become an actor and doing it at forty, because a good look in the nineteen. But you're not nineteen. Motivation should be replaced. You need to understand why you're in this place, in fact or by inertia. I do believe that to live is to look for motivation to life. Therefore, the importance of discipline in order to find them. Discipline is not external violence, and domestic demand for all who are going to live in the community. Discipline and resistance. Without resistance there is no development. By the way, it tells you the man who for many years was incarnate by the negation of any discipline and external influences. I think I even became an actor in contempt of discipline.
And it's possible to choose a profession, which involves the rivalry and struggle for success, and to despise the discipline?
- This is understandable. I grew up in several countries - my father taught in Nigeria, and we lived there, then there was England, then the US, then again England. Things were changing, and each time I had to root again. As a result, I was a difficult teenager. Nothing particularly scary is the complete negation of chemistry and physics, guitar, rock band, pierced ears, grass. I grew up among different cultures, for me there is no racial and class boundaries between people. But no authority. Any authority was disgusted me. What was known trauma for the family: my parents are both teachers, the father of the historian of the classical academic warehouse. His normal teenage laziness I was determined as a determination to resist the System. If I was required to read Shakespeare, I read Thomas Mann. If you said that you have to listen to Brahms, I listened exclusively Hendrix. In addition, I studied in a private school. What does it mean in the school for boys. Only boys. Girls were something beautiful and unattainable. Unattainable-beautiful. Now I think that going in Amateur theatre I started mainly to meet girls. And to create their own space - a world of its own, which certainly will not invade foreign and alien to me - authority. I was a classic pesky adult teenager nihilist with a guitar, piles of books and a complete unwillingness sedately to go to University. And as for the University, father battle with me lost, I became an actor. It so happened.
You all consider their successes due to circumstances?
- Perhaps... from me to you nothing else will hear. I really believe in this idea from a song Lennon: life is what happens while we make plans. I try to live a simple life, not according to plan. Until recently didn't know what I will do next year - and in-demand actors usually paint my life two years ahead. I now try not to paint. Don't know what's going to happen next year, what will be the role, what kind of movies. Disagree, when the Studio offered to sign a contract immediately, say, three roles, the so-called batch agreements. Life is not something that can be packaged. It seems to me, the recognition of its spontaneity is a sign of maturity. So I easily agree on most of her unexpected offerings.
- And what is life to you comes as a surprise proposal?
When I had a serious relationship with Meg (Meg Tilly is an American actress and writer. - CA. ed. and she decided that acting is nonsense, I did not argue with it and even with some enthusiasm responded to the idea to move home Meg, Canada. He lived for four years in the town in the forests of British Columbia, I worked as a carpenter, God knows who else... Two years was not an actor at all. But then I felt that I was... far from his own life. And returned to London, broke up with Meg. For me it was hard - we had the will, to leave him hurt even physically. But I knew that actually we are not going our separate ways, but we have to live my life. And to feel her taste now, here... you Know, I often reread Faulkner, Light in August". Reread because of its descriptions of the heat, the smells of the village, the dust on the sawmill... Remember? The Faulkner when he wrote this, was thirty-five. And he already knew that we have to live with this - not opinions, not positions, and feeling. Position - they need to have, and to live that feeling live. If you learn to just be, retreats fear of nothingness.
- This fear usually come to us with the onset of midlife crisis ...
I can survive for twenty years. With thirty, since the actual middle age. Now I am not so concerned about their own limb. But I feel extremely sad when I think of how my children lose me. On a personal level I do not fear death. I just wouldn't want to attend. Clean woody Allen, I understand. But still the best way to overcome a midlife crisis. When there is someone who is important to you than yourself. When you feel the responsibility that simply cannot be undone - it is already born and are growing up this responsibility. Parents owe to children and children to parents.... in my opinion, nothing. If children remain close with aging parents, or them together interesting, or... kids are good people. All life is a test of our goodwill, provocation to be better.
"Oh you say that you are the perfect father...
- Is it possible to be ideal? In my opinion, the possible maximum amount of to always be for your children... available. Always be in their "range". In General, I just try to be present in their life that they've always had the feeling that I was there. And it can not happen that I don't have time for them. I always have time for them. To me even the choice never rises - family or work. It is clear that the family. And when you choose this position his body in reality, things are going as we would like, completely by itself. For example, I am able to spend a lot of time with will, the eldest son, he lives in Los Angeles, because now I do a lot of filming in America. Children is a two - way street. They need me actually less than I. You have to constantly train brains to answer increasingly complex questions. And in my case, to answer these questions you need to have and in Italian: my younger sons bilingual. Although I will not claim to have learned Italian because of them.
- Then what?
Perhaps it's the most romantic thing I did in life learned to speak the native language of Libya (Libya Giuggioli, producer, wife of the Firth. - Approx. as amended). When you teach the language of the one you love, become closer to him. An almost physical sense.
In your life, there is authority?
- Not much. Gandhi. And my grandfather, my mother's father. Gandhi because of his willingness to sacrifice himself to what he considered more significant than yourself. Due to the fact that fought in the most hopeless circumstances. Realizing the hopelessness felt the inability to give up the fight. Was devoted to justice, as he saw it. And my grandfather... He was a doctor in India in 30-that is, Treated not British - Indians. This, in my opinion, says it all.
- You fifty, and you on top of the personal life, career...
"...but we are descending. I see the top - not as a goal in itself, but as the beginning of the descent. But to go down easier than scrambling. I don't like formal wear, tie for me - the whole test. Understand the age... it's like a long-awaited opportunity to loosen the knot on the tie. A very special pleasure to loosen the tie.
Special characters
Mr. Darcy from the film adaptation of the novel of Jane Austen's "Pride and prejudice" Simon Langton did Colin Firth object dreams almost all women of our age. "It is quite ridiculous to become a character in pop culture," says the actor. But if he really created for the role of someone who, as stated in the novel, "attracts attention with its stately figure, the right facial features and aristocratic appearance." And the Firth admits that his life is "only three women - mother, wife, and Jane Austen".
Artist Johannes Vermeer from the film by Peter Webber's "Girl with a pearl earring" is a very special for the Firth hero. "After all, very few actors will agree on the role consisting essentially of one look," he says.
King George VI from "the King's speech! " Tom Hooper brought the actor not only Oscar, but also the most valuable for him a compliment. Queen Elizabeth, after watching the movie, said that he had learned in the hero of the Firth of his father. "It was the most important for me praise, " said the actor. And not because it said the Queen. But because it said the daughter, who loved his father. And sooner lost it".
The Vicomte de Valmont
, archetypal seducer in the film by Milos Forman's "Valmont", the film adaptation of "Dangerous relations" Choderlos de Laclos, was the first major role of Firth in the film and his first role, which spoke.
Source:
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