Peter Firth

[lottanyman]

(04-01-2011 07:12 AM)Obsession Wrote:  I like your comments re Harry's personal life being personal; but I must say, I wish he'd be more candid in interviews about Spooks. I'm sick of him parroting the same lines in every interview - yes, we know Spooks works well cause it kills off its characters - tell us something we really want to know like what's his opinion on Ruth and Harry. He says this line about how he knows Harry really well, better than his portrail on screen and yet he doesn't give us more!

Right, rant over now.

P.S: Would so love to see him on Have I Got News for You

I think being an avid fan and being attentive for news of the particular actor (or whatever public person…) makes you realise that most of the things people say are the same things or similar versions of it all over again. But I think that’s just normal and normally nobody takes notice of this because not everybody is “following up” every tiny snippet of those people and hears a story for the first time and that be it.

I’ve noticed this lately for many of the actors I like – that in interviews or in news stories it is always the same they talk about, maybe even the same phrasing and you get a little annoyed at this but actually I think it is perfectly comprehensible to do so.

First of course because they can’t give too much away but also they tend to stick to some stories that really work, maybe for some comical effect. Peter Firth also does this with the little tale about having his mother in the audience for the first or one of the first Equus performances and her saying she didn’t mind him seeing naked on stage because she’d been the first ever (or so she thought) to see him so.