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British star Colin Firth has been quick to deny rumors swirling that he cried when told his character in Bridget Jones’s Diary had been killed off.
The Oscar-winning actor said he ‘took it in his stride’ when author Helen Fielding called him to break the news that Mark Darcy had died and wouldn’t be featuring in the next Bridget Jones book, Mad About The Boy.
He told Sky News: “I’ve heard I that nearly wept or that I had to process it,” he said. “I’m afraid, I tend to find the demise of a fictional character doesn’t run very deep.”
Fielding has hinted that she could bring Darcy back from the dead, and if so, Firth would gladly step back into the role.
“I’m always happy to be reincarnated, rejuvenated – a pair of electrodes – I would happily walk,” he said.
Since appearing in the first two Bridget Jones films alongside Rene Zellweger and Hugh Grant, Firth has gone on win two BAFTAs and an Oscar in 2011 for his role in the The King’s Speech.
Next year could see him earn another Oscar nomination for his latest film, The Railway Man, which is premiered in Leicester Square, London this week.
Starring alongside Nicole Kidman, Firth plays real life WWII officer Eric Lomax in an adaptation of his autobiography.
It recounts his experiences as a tortured prisoner of war forced to work on the notorious ‘Death Railway’ in Thailand.
The Railway Man is released in January.
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