Colin Firth: 'I keep getting discovered'
Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. "I was hoping that would bury it at a crossroads at midnight with a stake through it's heart but it didn't quite do that," he jokes. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free Firth is not entirely alien to singing – he sung vocals in "a ropey schoolboy band" when he was 11 – but so far, as Firth puts it, "I haven't been forced to do the kind of singing where my voice is required to be extraordinary". Later in the year, Firth can be seen in Helen Hunt's directorial debut, Then She Found Me, in which he plays "a bloke called Frank", a single father whose child is taught by Hunt's character. "It's a different area emotionally from anything else Michael's done," says Firth, suddenly lighting up.
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