It’s May Fourth, and many geeky types are celebrating with “May the Fourth Be With You.” But as we’ve said plenty of times, we don’t do sci-fi. So around here, it’s May the Firth Be With You — Colin Firth, of course! This week, we’re celebrating with an extra Man Candy Monday. You’re welcome.
Armand Duval in Camille (1984)
Vicomte de Valmont in Valmont (1989)
Richard Courtois in The Advocate aka The Hour of the Pig (1993)
Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Lord Wessex in Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
Vermeer in Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003)
Aurelius in The Last Legion (2007)
George in A Single Man (2009)
King George VI in The King’s Speech (2010)
Stanley in Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
And we have more Colin Firth historical costume movies to look forward to — he’ll be in 2018’s Mary Poppins Returns and the Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince, written and produced by Rupert Everett. May the Firth be with you, indeed!
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I loved him in “The Kingsmen” as well –
The Kingsmen sequel comes out 9/22/17. I loved him in Pride & Prejudice.
He’s also in “Genius,” which is a period piece I saw just the other night; he plays the famous book editor who edited Hemingway, Fitzgerald (Guy Pierce), and Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) into the best-seller list. The film follows his characters’ friendship with Wolfe, and the knock-down drag out intellectual fights they had over pairing down Wolfe’s purple prose. (Nicole Kidman is also in it.)
Colin Firth is the perfect greeting of any fourth. In fact, he’s one actor I gave binged on for years. But, I also loved him in Love, Actually where he played a writer who learns Portuguese to converse with the woman with whom he fell in Love.
Darcy and Vermeer are probably my favourite with King George, Jack, & Wessex a close second. I need to watch a Hour of the Pig.
Don’t forget Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which I think is one of his best jobs as an actor and has excellent Cold War era suiting: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ec/8d/f9/ec8df941071fb4b74852dc36bc84618c.jpg