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Colin
Firth's Diary
Bridget
Jones's Diary star Colin Firth gets in touch with his feminine side,
with his take on fitness, fashion and grooming.
Do
you work out regularly?
I feel physically I am in better shape that I have ever been in. I
exercise more in earnest now - every day if time permits it. I am not
that aggressive about it. SInce the baby came [son Luca with wife Livia
Giuggioli, 31, is 5 months old], I don't want to waste time exercising.
I'll go for a run or swim. I don't like exercising around other people,
I like solitude. I love running in the country. I think it is quite a
meditative process and I like having peace. I do a little bit of stuff
with hand weights.
How
much time do you spend on your morning grooming routine?
If I have no appointments and I am not going to go to work and I am not
going to meet anybody new and there is nothing important, pretty well
zero. I'll check that I don't have a zit on the end of my nose. I'll
check that my hair isn't looking quite the way it did when I woke up off
the pillow. I'll run fingers through it. If that doesn't work, water. If
I have a photo shoot, or a camera test or I'm going to meet my fellow
actors for the first time, I'll put some product or something in my
hair. I use something called Potion 9 by Sebastian. I have a hairdresser
in LA who is still my favourite hair cutter. He recommended it one day,
put it through my hair, and I said, "What is that stuff?" I
bought it, but never managed to make it look as good as he did.
Do
you ever use any skin-care products?
Not very much. I moisturise a little bit before I go to bed if it has
been a windy day. That is not like, "I have to look pretty,"
as much as I'm conscious of looking dry.
What
do you have to do before leaving the house?
I need to be feel I've washed. I'll take care of my hygiene. I want my
teeth to be brushed. I wan tto be showered and to feel fresh. I will get
uncomfortable if my hair and my fingernails haven't been attended to
recently. That's pretty much it.
How
much attention do you pay to fashion?
I do care about what I wear to some extent. There is probably a studied
indifference in that I don't want to seem to have thought about it, but
of course I will put some thought into it. I love simple, not too
identifiable.
How
has your self-image changed over the past 10 years?
I am 40 now and I feel less boyish. It may sound obvious but some people
never looked boyish. I felt terminally boyish and, I suppose, slightly
androgynous. I was beardless and lean. I felt that I appealed more to
gay men that I did to women. I wasn't disturbed by the attention from
gay men. It's just that happening not to be gay, I would have preferred
it to have been women in terms of my own opportunities.
Quote
from Colin: "I am not pumped and I don't look like Brad Pitt. I
never will," says Colin Firth, who plays hunky Mark Darcy in
Bridget Jones's Diary.
Article
Courtesy of Who Magazine - August 27, 2001. |
