Peter Firth

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(09-07-2010 04:22 PM)A Cousin Wrote:  I watched An Awfully Big Adventure last night. As twisted and disturbing a take on the Peter Pan story as this is, I thought PF was one of the best things in it as the devoted Stage Manager Bunny, AKA Tinkerbell. Bunny is one of the few characters that is not caricatured. His performance is very understated and it could have gone way off the deep end. It teetered on it, but never actually toppled into the overacting for laughs abyss. There were a lot of acting-in-between-the-lines moments which he does so well. It is a character that unfolds slowly and Bunny has a whole plot line all his own underneath everything else. I prefer his plot line as it is a whole lot less...um...sordid.

Just finished watching AABA last night. I have to say that you certainly wouldn't watch it with your Gran on a Sunday afternoon. What a bizarre film. A sort of comedy about homosexuality and incest. An adult version of Peter Pan they say. The best performance certainly came from PF (Bunny) even though Alan Rickman seemed to grab all the headlines, for his 5 minute performance and half a dozen lines. You are never quite sure whether Bunny and Hugh Grant have had a relationship in the past or are having one still. Quite why Bunny loves Hugh Grant is a mystery though, with all his many foibles. I think PF steals the show here and I love the moment he scrapes his chair across the floor accidentally when Hugh Grant is giving his speech. As I say, an odd film. I do wonder why PF went for this role, if not for the money, then maybe it was the pull of Mike Newell who had just made Four Weddings and a Funeral.