19 December 2014
Newsdesk
Colin Firth “misses filming fight scenes terribly”.
The 54-year-old actor is known for playing the dignified Englishman in countless films, but broke into the action world in his latest movie, Kingsman: The Secret Service. And shooting the heavily physical scenes with trained professionals was a serious thrill for him.
“To actually become a team with those people was utterly exhilarating and I have to say I missed it terribly,” he told Access Hollywood. “Once those scenes were done, to go back to the day job of just sitting around pointing my suit at people and talking… it lacked the exhilaration.”
Colin was directed by Matthew Vaughn in the action-spy movie, which was based on comic book The Secret Service. He portrayed Harry Hart, a secret service agent who takes a younger agent into the fray.
And Colin thoroughly enjoyed his foray into the genre.
“I started to love it!” he gushed. “I started to love the collaboration and the camaraderie, people whose history and whose skills were completely alien to mine.”
He was required to train intensely in order to pull off true to life fight scenes. The director didn’t let him cut any corners, either; Colin had to do all the physical work himself, which he found taxing but fun.
“It’s probably, in the experiences I’ve had in my life, that has to stand out as completely unlike anything else,” the star explained. “It’s choreographed. It’s somewhere between a dance and a fight and acting. Its sadly not particularly usable anywhere else. You learn all these things and I loved it… I can’t pretend I loved the first month! Matthew basically wanted me to do all of it, because its shot like an uncut sequence… it’s all shot from one camera position, wide enough to be like theatre, so everybody has to learn those moves and practice them and finesse them so they’re camera ready. What you see is what actually happens. They all had skills in these things, I did not.”
The film is set for release on January 27, 2015.
