Do not call The King’s Speech a period piece — at least not around its star Colin Firth. And this is a guy who knows a thing or two about labels — an actor who has long since shed the baggage of being the fantasy of every adolescent girl who ever saw Pride and Prejudice . As Firth mentions, he’s quite happy he’s at an age (he just turned 50) where it’s his work as an actor who’s being judged — judgment that paid off with his first Oscar nomination last year for A Single Man and what will surely be his second nomination this year for The King’s Speech .
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Colin Firth on King’s Speech, Heartthrob Politics, and His Secret American Roots
