*giggle* well, we're just rabid Darcy fans who'll give any excuse to see the man doing informal things...
Ok, found "interview" online and am posting relevant, clean parts. BJ = Bridget Jones, CF = Colin Firth.
BJ You know in Pride and Prejudice?
CF I do know in it, yes.
BJ When you had to dive into the lake?
CF Yes.
BJ When they had to do another take, did you have to take the wet shirt off and then put a dry one on?
CF Yes I, I probably did have to, yes.
BJ (BREATHING UNSTEADILY) How many takes did they have to do?
CF (COUGHS) Well. The underwater shots were a tank in Ealing Studios.
BJ Oh no.
CF I'm afraid so. The -um - moment of being airborne - extremely brief - was a stuntman.
BJ But it looked like Mr Darcy.
CF That was because he had stuck on sideburns and a Mr Darcy outfit on top of a wet suit, which actually made him look like Elvis as you last saw him. He could only do it once for insurance reasons and then he had to be checked for abrasions for about six weeks afterwards. All the other wet shirt shots were me.
BJ You know the other wet shirt shots?
CF Yes.
BJ Were they you?
CF Yes.
BJ And did the shirt have to keep being re-wet?
CF Yes. They'd spray it down. They'd spray it down and then...
BJ What with?
CF I'm sorry?
BJ What with?
CF A squirter thing. Look can we...
BJ Yes, but what I mean is did you ever have to take the shirt off and, and put another one on?
CF Yes.
BJ To be wet again?
CF Yes.
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BJ (SULKILY) Do you think that Mr Darcy has a political dimension?
CF I did speculate on what his politics might be, if he had any. And I don't think that they would be very appealing to a reader of The Independent. It's that pre-Victorian or Victorian idea of being the rich social benefactor, which would be very 'Thatcherite probably. I mean, the thought of socialism obviously hadn't entered the...
BJ No.
CF ... entered his sphere. And it is clearly stated by way of showing what a nice chap he is that he is very nice towards his tenants. But I think that he'd be closer to a sort of Nietzschian figure, a...
BJ What is neacher?
CF You know, the idea of the, er, human being as superman.
BJ Superman?
CF Not Superman himself, no. No (SLIGHT GROANING NOISE). I don't think he wore his underpants over his breeches, no. Look, I'd really like to get off this subject now.
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BJ Could I just check something about the shirt?
CF Yes.
BJ How many times altogether exactly did you have to take it off and put it on again?
CF Precisely... I don't know. Um. Let me see... there was the bit where I was walking towards Pemberley. That was shot once. One take. Then there was the bit where I give my horse to somebody... I think there was a change.
BJ (BRIGHTENING) There was a change?
CF (STRICTLY) There was. One change.
BJ So it was mainly just the one wet shirt, though?
CF The one wet shirt which they kept respraying, yes. All right?
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CF Is that it, then?
BJ No. What was it like with your friends when you started being Mr Darcy?
CF There were a lot of jokes about it: growling, "Mr Darcy" over breakfast and so on. There was a brief period when they had to work quite hard to hide their knowledge of who I really was and...
BJ Hide it from who?
CF Well, from anyone who suspected that perhaps I was like Mr Darcy.
BJ But do you think you're not like Mr Darcy?
CF I do think I'm not like Mr Darcy, yes.
BJ I think you're exactly like Mr Darcy.
CF In what way?
BJ You talk the same way as him.
CF Oh do I?
BJ You look exactly like him, and I, oh, oh...
PROTRACTED CRASHING NOISES FOLLOWED BY SOUNDS OF STRUGGLE
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