He was 22 years old, wearing a pair of old shoes hole, walk 3 kilometers, finally returned to the room to see the sunlight of 10 square meters of the room, this is his rental.
Hungry for a day, open the refrigerator, want to find something to eat, but found nothing inside. Turned around, and began to look in the bed full of clothes to see if there were any biscuits left yesterday.
He's just graduated from college, and he's not getting enough income, and his food and clothing can't be guaranteed. He is accustomed to this, 4 years ago, he left his hometown of small town, "one" drift to the big city, played no day, while doing odd jobs to earn money to support themselves, while at a drama school.
Saving money out of this rental house is a distant goal for the young man. Just a few days ago, a theatrical predecessors said he was ugly, on the stage as a fast out light bulb conspicuous. The predecessor said he could not eat the bowl of rice, advised him to change careers quickly.
He was used to this sarcasm.
When he moved to England with his parents moved from the United States, in the new school self introduction "my name is Colin Firth, you can call me Colin", a word not finished, the class started only in the United States before they set the whole room roaring with laughter, westerns heard in the American accent. No one calls him Colin, and everybody calls him "The Yank American earth guy".
After college, he is a native Hampshire working-class accent was Cockney classmates made fun of, even so do not let him play the leading role in the drama.
His peers laughed at his accent, and the teacher regarded him as a problem student.
When he was a middle school student, he never handed in his homework, so he became the only English student who failed in english. In the middle school, the worst was chemistry. He got 3 points in the final exam, 2 of which was because he wrote the name correctly.
Despite 22 years of denial, Firth was admitted to one of the best theatre schools in the UK, the London theatre center.
Young Colin Firth wearing earrings
After 3 years of learning, Firth graduated. He worried that he can not find a job, go to the theatre in a variety of audition, hope to get the opportunity to perform. The holes in sneakers are coming out during this time.
Running days lasted for 1 years, he traveled all of London theatre, finally got the job through the audition. But he said to his friends, other interviewers were better than themselves, but the interviewer wanted to find someone with a little accent, so he was asked.
With stable income, he never saw the sunshine rental house move out. His professional level has gradually been recognized by more and more people, and has been excavated to play movies and TV plays. Although the pay was barely enough to pay rent and eat, but he is still young, there are a lot of expectations for their own future, imagine themselves and the star of "Robert De Niro" - Robert Deniro, acting together.
Colin Firth student idol Robert De Niro
Acting not only made him look forward to, but also made him love. At the age of 29, in the process of filming, Firth met a foreign girl, not only acting, but also writing novels. He liked this Asian girl and talked to her about love. What's missing is that the girl doesn't want to live in Britain and just want to go back to her native place.
To live in London just before the British, Canadian colony, is the bitter cold of the land with much land and few people. Young, he has an appointment, and his future. For love to go to Canada, how much is not worthwhile.
But 2 years later, he changed his mind.
It was 1991, the British actor "was born in the same year he and Hugh Grant - Hugh Grant" has won the Venice Film Festival winner; the same age British actress "Kristin Thomas" - Kristen Thomas has been in the United States Hollywood debut, plays the heroine; and with him in the movie "Another Country" the debut Rupert Everett, already became a director.
And he was 31 years old, still in various film and television show played a supporting role, the fee is still a fraction of the star, but no one took him as the new.
Firth moved with his girlfriend. In British Columbia, Canada, a cabin is his new home in the virgin forest.
Living here is almost isolated, looking out of the window in winter, and only seeing trees that are dyed white by snow. If you can only see snow in front of you, that means you can't drive out and completely disconnect from the outside world.
Living in a log cabin, he made furniture himself, studied literature, and wrote novels. The only fixed job is to change diapers for my son. He often sits at the window, looking at the snow all over the outside, in a daze, want to do something.
Colin Firth resides in British Columbia, Canada
After 2 years in Canada, Firth divorced. He had no reason to stay in Canada, and he went back to England alone.
2 years without touching a play, and when he arrived in London, greeting his old friends, he began to resume his resume. People in the industry forgot about him and left his resume on the desk. Only 1 of commercial films can give him a job, salary is $5 thousand. He picked it up and lived on it.
The day suddenly muddle along without any aim, the opportunity to find their own home. BBC adapted the literary masterpiece "Pride and Prejudice" into a TV play. The director saw his previous film, found him through friends, invited him to participate in the actor's "Darcy - Darcy" audition.
He didn't agree immediately to face the chance.
From the beginning of this line, his ugly voice always echoes in Firth's ear. I heard that "Pride and Prejudice" was invited, and even his younger brother poured cold water: "looking for my brother to act as Mr. Darcy?" Shouldn't the role be sexier? "
After receiving the invitation, Firth stayed at home for a day, watching videos of his own work 10 years ago, surprised at the good acting he had just begun. He remember to turn the newspaper for comments, see their excitement after.
He wants to try again.
Out of the house, he dyed his hair yellow from black - the same color as the hero.
He began to prepare, from home to the set, with the novel and the original script repeatedly read, try to figure out the role. He wasn't sure he could do it well, in a scene bathed in the river, the director asked him to completely expose the upper body, but Firth said, "no, I'm not good, and there's some fat on the waist.". He refused the director's request and insisted on launching in a white shirt.
Accidentally is, the wet shirt became a classic lens. Shooting "Oliver" and "prime minister" and so on, God play BBC, the best in the history of the lens. It's also classic, and this pride and prejudice, when it was broadcast in Britain, won the ratings champion, when 56 million of the population was in Britain, and 13 million people watched this TV play.
The lens of Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice
A statue erected for this shot
Everyone knew Firth's face and knew he was Mr. darcy. That year, he was 35 years old.
His life has changed. Before walking on the street, no one ever spoke to him. Now, whether you're going to the supermarket or eating in a restaurant, someone comes up and asks if he's "Darcy", and then comes up with all sorts of things to find his signature.
But he also found that everyone called him "Darcy" rather than his real name "Colin" - he never had his own name.
No one said he was ugly, the film side found him, asked him to be in romantic love again, the reward was twice as much as his previous work, reaching millions of dollars.
Every morning, he would stare into the mirror and make sure that his face did not change as compared to 10 years ago.
Darcy didn't make him feel challenged, he knew he could play a more difficult role. He did get praise again, but not because he was an actor, but he was "Darcy".
He didn't have a strong sense of achievement, nor was he excited by praise.
Most of the romantic dramas were rejected by him.
Firth has a reputation for being picky, and what others can't understand is that a lot of the work he has pushed out is well paid, and he accepts a few supporting roles.
Firth tries to play the villain in "Shakespeare in love"
At the age of 35, he played all the characters he didn't try, and spent a lot of time studying his character's work and life, with a dozen dozen biographies and materials to the studio every day. Once he played the painter, picked up the fake paintings used as props cautiously without any noise, for fear of accidentally fell off.
In his play a supporting role, and his age Hugh Grant Four Weddings and a with the movie "Funeral" got the Royal Academy Award winner; another actress Kristin Thomas and his peers, as the heroine in his "The English Patient" supporting role; and that with his debut Rupert Everett then, return to the entertainment circle again in recognition of homosexuality.
While Firth did not take any awards, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary, do a supporting role.
This is done for 15 years.
As a supporting actor for 15 years, Firth has been forgotten, and occasionally when he saw him in the movie, he would ask, "is this Darcy?" "
He is 50 years old, and according to Chinese people, is the age of knowing destiny. A historical film suddenly came to the door, invited him to play the leading role, to play a historical figure.
He didn't immediately promise to play, he read the script carefully, and immediately found the producer: the play had to be played.
As usual, he studied all the information that could be found in the character, and brought himself into the role specific flaw. He and the powerful actor had a sense of play in the film, and the film became a reality.
In November 2010, Colin Firth starred in "The King's Speech" - the king's speech released. 3 months later, he stood in Oscar on the podium, get numerous counterparts coveted Oscar winner, standing on the peak.
"The king's speech"
4 months to get the movie king, Queen Firth canonized for jazz. All praise to him, critics said he "is in line with the British gentleman, calm calm without showing feelings character". He even owned his own female fan group at the age of 50.
He no longer had curled up in the rental housing for young people, but the $16 million net worth of the Oscar winner, but also all the movie box office guarantee. Even a small movie with a $30 million movie cost US $200 million for the box office and a record at the UK box office.
He was invited by all kinds of big movies. The most surprising thing was that the comic adapted "Kingsman - Ace agent" also found him and asked him to play the action drama.
Never did the action of Firth during that time, the biggest hobby is sitting in a garden in a daze, "ace" agent received the invitation, he felt himself not to enjoy a happy life of the age, is a piece of muscle only, and 30 years younger than the actors to brandish, play the agent.
Do not use double Firth, knocked a broken tooth, limbs and back left bruises, left arm even move. And he starred in a $81 million "trump card" for $220 million box office. In China, "ace agents" won 480 million yuan box office, with a score of up to 8.4, which is rarely seen in commercial films.
In this "ace" agent in 2015, the role of Firth as a tragic hero, the villain was a shot. But the director said, "the audience is willing to pay, I must let Firth in the second resurrection" promise, let him play his second action drama.
Today, "Kingsman:The Golden Circle - Ace agent 2: Golden Circle" is being released in China, and Firth appears again on the screen of Chinese cinema.
Last week, "Kingsman:The Golden Circle - Ace 2: Golden Circle" came to china.
There were no Firth figures coming to China, but all the media were ready to ask him questions, even if he had only a remote conversation with his mobile phone and reporters.
Because of the time difference, he just got up and started calling. Although the overseas telephone signal was not too clear, and there was a lot of noise, he tried to amplify the sound so that the interviewer could hear it.
A Chinese journalist asked him, "what are you wearing now?"
He paused at the other end of the phone and said, "I didn't expect to be asked such a question. And then he had a little laugh in his voice: "I'm wearing casual casual clothes and listening to the phone.".
The reporter solemnly put down his answer, it seems that this is a news - Colin Faith movie always dress straight, life was also wearing casual clothes.
In talking with me, Firth told me that he thought life is long, want to sit sit long, eat much food, what do not want to, do not have to worry about being out of shape.
No one knows if he's going to go to sleep or play a new role when I'm finished with my talk.
No one knows, when he sits in a daze, whether he will remember that sentence in his mind, he will always think of the words when acting:
"I must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on."
"I have to do it.". I can't do it anymore. I have to do it. "
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