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Writer's pictureDeborah Yaffe

Inferiority complex

In 2007, Colin Firth told the London Sunday Times that he was completely unsuited to his most famous role, which he had played twelve years earlier.

 

"I could not have been more wrong for it,” Firth said. “I am totally unlike Mr. Darcy. I talk like a blue streak, I don't own a horse or acres of property. I'm a secondary-modern schoolkid with no links to nobility. Yet I played this taciturn, dark, sexy guy and everyone remembers it."

 

Last month, Matthew Macfadyen confessed to similar worries about playing . . . the same part a decade later.

 

“I wish I’d enjoyed it more. I wish I was less worried about it,” Macfadyen told CBS Mornings (at 3:43), during an interview to promote his latest movie, the superhero smash Deadpool & Wolverine. “I felt a bit miscast, or I’m not dishy enough.”

 

Apparently, no man, no matter how handsome or talented, believes he’s good enough to play Mr. Darcy. No doubt Mr. Darcy—at least, the Mr. Darcy of the first half of Pride and Prejudice—would agree.

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