something all day long, but if you're able to show it to them, the impact is a second. >> he's a part of the recording. they may have been making the history but he was recording history. god, you can tell a lie but photos don't lie. it's the movie that everyone's talking about this award season. >> what will i call you? >> your royal highness. >> "the king's speech" picked up two big s.a.g. awards and 12 nominations for the biggest prize of all, the oscar. >> colin firth in "the king's speech." geoffrey rush. in "the king's speech" >> helena bodham carter in "the king's speech." >> everybody wants to talk to the cast and tonight i've got them. colin firth, geoffrey rush and helena bonham carter. the royal family of actors.

>> i love the label. i mean, wonderful. absolutely wear that on a t-shirt. >> my guest tonight is colin firth, star of the oscar potential winning "king's speech." to give you some idea if you haven't watched that film, here's a little clip. >> listen to me! >> listen to you. by what right? >> by divine right if you must. i'm your king. >> no, you're not. you said you don't want it. why should i waste my time listening? >> because i have a right to be heard and i have a voice. >> yes, you do. >> colin, the great irony of that clip is you don't have a voice tonight. >> a touch of -- onset of puberty i think. >> is this, do you think, the greatest role of your career? i know it's always hard

to choose like choosing a favorite baby. do you think it is? >> that will be either for me to died or me to decide when i'm so old i'm -- rotting away trying to grasp at any memories i have dictating my memoirs. may be the one that sticks out. "single man" for me personally would have to come very close, as well. >> obviously, the whole issue of george vi and a lot of brits don't know much about the story but the queen mother and what happened to her. he's remained this sort of enigmatic figure that we're aware of without really being aware of. you brought it to public consciousness. what did you think of bertie, king george vi? >> i fell in love with him completely. i thought he was the most adorable, admirable, fascinating -- i love hidden glorious and secret heroes. you know, i'm not interested in people with superpowers. this man, it was an athletic feat to get to the end of a sentence and i think he played a much more important role than people give him a credit for. >> it had that crippling stammer

which meant when he tried to address the nation it was almost torturous to listen to. i've actually heard some of the real footage of king george vi and it's painful listening, isn't it? >> it is. the surviving recordings are much later on, i mean, certainly after he met his speech therapist. and some of them sound like he's doing pretty well, and there are moments, i mean, tom hooper and i watched some old film footage of him in 1938 addressing a large crowd, and it was heartbreaking. i mean, you can see him struggling with the muscles in the face and the neck and whatever's going on it's like there is a boxing match inside his body. >> do you have weird moments now when you're kind of -- i can't imagine you're in a supermarket much anymore but if you are -- >> you don't know my wife. we spend a lot of time -- >> i met your wife. very lovely, too. when you're in the market and start ordering something, do you lapse into bertie and stammering because you got so used to that voice? >> when i'm in a supermarket, yes.

we all stammered actually. it's bizarre how contagious it is and if i start to talk bit, the words get completely backwards but tom hooper started to stammer giving the notes and sometimes it would take a half hour to say what he meant. what happened to me in the supermarket most of the time people say, piers morgan, can i get your autograph? >> i'm flattered. >> come on, really. >> i'm more flattered. it plays very well for me. >> plays well for me. it's probably served half of my career. the morgan factor. "town and country" magazine to my utter delight had you and i both down in this top 101 people that you must meet in 2011. >> aren't we both lucky? >> well, i thought i was lucky. i discovered that i was at 66 and you rolled in at 33. >> bloody hell. >> at which point -- >> numeric, very precise bit. >> it meant that people -- 50% keener to meet you this year than they are me. quite hurtful. >> keep retesting that.

>> as a fellow brit, you and i know probably how difficult it is to succeed in america, not many british people, any serve entertainment do. you have emerged as for want of a better description the new david nevin. you know, you've taken over hugh grant's mantle. you're now this debonair, charming british man that every american woman falls in love with. >> i love the label. i mean, just absolutely wear that on a t-shirt. david niven, i think, is one of the great movie stars -- >> so do i. >> any comparison to him i would just welcome, sit there and lap it up. i'd like to think it's true. i'm not sure it is. and i my i think -- >> do you write like the fact of having been darcy and having been in "bridget jones" where you play the classic archetypal charmer that the last two great roles you have had "single man," and "king's speech" you are not playing that character? >> i do relish that.

this character leaving aside the speech problem, he is a damaged soul and whether it's because of the speech problem, the character as written in our script is somebody who has a huge number of demons. that's very interesting work for me. >> you prefer it as an actor? >> of course. it's wonderful hunting ground. i mean that's what we get our teeth into. >> no disrespect. but you just turned 50. i'm not sure how long you can play out that darcy stuff. >> i'm not trying to play it out. >> i know. >> come after me. darcy or piers morgan. it's impossible to escape, but, no, it's -- that's where the rich pickings are, you know. it's people with problems far more interesting. if you don't have any problems, you're bland. >> i have always detected you feel slightly uncomfortable being a sex symbol and never felt as easy with that part as you could. >> if i could truly believe it, i would be so comfortable with it. it's not lack of vanity at all. >> you should believe it. i get women telling me when they think i'm colin, wow,

you're sexy. i love you. >> you've got to know when you gracefully hang up a mantle and trade it for another, and darcy was 15 years ago and funnily enough, i mean five or six hours darcy, he was anything but a charmer. this was a kind of strange counterintuitive thing. i thought i was playing the most unlikely person in literature, you know, who alienates absolutely everybody and yet, somehow, this sort of, you know, the -- i mean, certainly not the david niven part in that film. >> your wife olivia, who i have had the pleasure of meeting once or twice at red carpets is absolutely radiantly beautiful, far too good for you. i might add. she says she is the ball breaker and you are the brains. i thought a wonderful description of a relationship. >> i'm afraid she is the ball breaker and the brains. >> and the beauty. where does that leave you? >> that leaves me taking out the trash. >> is she amused by your sex symbol image? >> yeah. even that's probably sort of out of date. the amusement. it was disbelief at first.

because i was in italy when "the pride and prejudice" thing happened. i hadn't seen it. >> she's italian? >> she's italian. yeah. we met in colombia. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i can tell you don't speak italian. >> i can't. >> that was a very, very good bluff. no. they just sort of thought, well, why -- is this repressionist? sexy for the british people or something? do you think all -- do you find john major sexy? >> not personally, no. but they've learned to love you, her family. i was reading recently. it was when you appeared at the venice film festival. it was, wow, they suddenly realized oh, wow. he means something. >> no. that would have meant waiting 15 years to love me. no. they -- they warmed up. i mean, taking a stab at their language, you know, i had to do an awful lot to convince them that i was good material for their daughter because i had a lot of strikes against me.

i was ten years older nearly, english, didn't speak the language. already had a child. i was an actor. i mean, the list really does get very, very bad so i had to fix the language. it was one thing i could deal with and, you know, gradually -- there's nothing like, you know, communicating with people in their own tongue. when we come back, what's the biggest turkey? >> we don't go there. >> oh, we do. >> no, you go there. >> i'd love to go there. is there one you wake up in the middle of the night and think, thank god i didn't make that film. oh, wait. i did. she felt lost... until the combination of three good probiotics in phillips' colon health defended against the bad gas, diarrhea and constipation. ...and? it helped balance her colon. oh, now that's the best part. i love your work. [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. i love your work. i'm sam chernin, owner of sammy's fish box. i opened the first sammy's back in 1966. my employees are like family,

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ladies and gentlemen, ricky gervais. >> in hollywood, the award season starts with the golden globes. it's the party of the year. and this year colin firth had good reason to celebrate. he took home the award for best actor in a drama for his role as the stutter iing king george vi and made it through his own speech without a hitch. >> he pe put me in really an improbable number of good films and as we have had 20 years together which is not bad for a showbiz marriage.

thank you, harvey. >> and took the walk to the podium once again at the screen actor's guild awards. >> at the heart of it as always would be my constant and beautiful fellow traveler olivia. thank you very much. >> this wasn't his first time at the party. he was nominated last year for his role in tom ford's "a single man." >> what's to stop me now? >> that role also gave him his very first oscar nomination. he's nominated again this year and insiders are calling him a front-runner for his magnificent performance. >> i believe sucking smoke into your lungs will kill you. >> my physician said it relaxes the throat. >> they're idiots. >> they've all been knighted. >> makes it official then. >> also official is his status as a red carpet sex symbol. not a role that he wears comfortably but having his wife by his side makes him feel more at home. what's the secret of a hollywood marriage which is unfortunately where you

are now a superstar actor whether you like it or not. you are getting that acclaim and attention and oscar build-up and only gets worse. how do you keep it, any kind of normality in that relationship? >> you know, i -- we've made it 15 years together. i think that's pretty good going. but you, you know, by hollywood standards. >> miraculous. >> and it's going to go on forever, and you just -- you navigate things on a daily basis. we are crazy about each other. children. we're very committed on a daily basis on how we will deal with our family lives. time -- we have to make sure that we spend enough time together. you know, it's -- every relationship in life is if you're going to take care of it, there's a marathon factor and -- >> how do you avoid the shallow pitfalls of temptation? like throwing hollywood heartthrobs away? >> it does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who's, you know,

fluttering eyelashes at you is she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife. i mean, it's just mash may be shallow of me to have a wife so beautiful but it's very -- it actually makes things easier. most beautiful woman in the world. >> pretty much. >> that's how i deal with it. >> after my wife. i've got to say that. i'll be in big trouble if i start to agree with you. >> i sat up with your wife yesterday. >> i know you did. what about your kids? when they grow up, i know you're quite a private guy. you don't really talk about them much but as they get older your children, would it unnerve you if they wanted to go into acting? >> oh, yeah. but i mean one's slightly unnerved watching the children make their way anyway and it's a precarious business but i think everything is precarious now, frankly. it amuses me or doesn't amuse me but i'm struck by memories of my father saying if you did good, invest and got this degree and you've got that training and you got a steady job you could have that as a backup and the ideas of security, my father was a

university lecturer and his whole generation were made redundant when he was about 55, and notions of security, i have actually -- i've had a career which is probably no less secure than his turned out to be. >> what would he have made of your success? >> well, he's still around. when i say was, he's retired. he loves it. it did wonders with my relationship because he didn't know any actors and didn't know the world of cinema and theater very much so he saw quite rightly so saw my acting dreams as a way of getting out of math class and, you know, as -- having an excuse to be bad at that stuff. when it actually delivered and i got a job, he was thrilled not just -- not because i was successful but just because i was involved in something. i was applying myself. i was happy. this was work now and not just some fantasy. >> you've made over 30 films now. >> have i? >> apparently.

there was a lot of work, colin. what's the biggest turkey? >> oh, we don't go there. >> we do. >> you go there. >> i'd love to go there. is there one that you wake up in the middle of the night and think, thank god i didn't make that film. oh, hang on, i did. >> there are a few. >> what's the worst? >> we can't, you see. >> why? >> because -- >> we isn't really relevant here. >> exactly. you can go through them and i'll keep my best poker face if you like. no, because -- >> like you had to pretend it didn't happen? >> it's not because i'm crazy about them. off the record we'll have a beer and i'll take you through them and you'll hear in no uncertain terms about it and hear a wailing and gnashing of teeth but -- no. the trouble is people i like that were involved. there will have been collaborators and colleagues and producers and fellow actors, and if you get into the business of pointing a finger at a film and saying, that is a pile of ole crap, and you've got 50 people who were invested in it, as well, you know, we're all going down

together. >> you've co-starred with renee zellweger, meryl streep. emma thompson, scarlet johansson. >> amazing, isn't it? >> spectacular. if you could be trapped with one of those on a desert island -- >> can i have all of them? >> you can have two. renee, meryl, emma, scarlett. >> i can't. >> helena in there. >> helena. helen mcdonald. gwyneth paltrow, reece witherspoon. >> how does olivia cope with this? does she mind? >> she tends to get on with them very well. >> do you like doing love scenes? >> i like the idea of them. >> so do i. i'd love to do love scenes. what's the worst thing to happen in your career? >> do you think anyone would notice if you stepped in as a body double? >> that's what i was thinking. if you're uncomfortable i could always step in. >> an arrangement. >> is it fun or can't imagine it. i can't imagine it isn't slightly good fun. >> listen.

it's as fun as it -- imagine how much fun it is to get your -- i mean you're surrounded by hardware in all these places here. >> yes, yes. >> how much fun would it be fun for you however beautiful the woman was -- >> scarlett johansson lying there, i could probably deal with a few cameras. if i like the cameras there to record the moment. >> you have got a point. >> for posterity. >> yes, you've got a point. i am -- you know -- it's a very odd experience to say the least. i mean, i remember somebody saying to me, an old veteran of these things before i ever did a love scene said you will only enjoy love scenes erotically you will only enjoy love scenes if you, "a," have an extraordinary capacity to shut out the witnesses. mentally. or you enjoy the witnesses. and those are the only two circumstances on which it can actually be, you know, exciting. >> and you have avoided the issue of what olivia thinks. i mean can any wife enjoy watching their beloved husband romping with scarlett johansson? >> i doubt it. i doubt whether it's a great pleasure. i don't know.

i mean -- >> i couldn't watch my wife to do that. >> you do just get on with it. it's one of those things that there's a baptism of fire in drama school and start breaking the taboos and things you're not comfortable with. >> taking up acting and suddenly she was jumping in bed with brad pitt. >> i didn't marry an actress. >> if she did -- have a career transformation. >> i would be very unhappy about it. it's as simple as that. >> in "the king's speech" you get to spend a lot of time with geoffrey rush, and we're about to be joined by geoffrey who's by some remote satellite in australia. some ungodly hour, but if you were to introduce himself yourself, how would you describe him? >> i would describe him as my geisha girl. he's actually i think one of the most thrilling actors i have ever worked with and i have seen him be howlingly funny and absolutely heartbreaking. he's got that whole spectrum covered. and the sheer joy of working with him on the set kept us buoyant.

you know, it was a freezing cold set and a very, very difficult script to give any authenticity to, so we were constantly battling things but geoffrey's sort of -- i don't know. he just had the most fantastic sense of humor and kept things alive, so it's just driving an energy i think which was the spine of the film. when we come back, what colin firth and co-star geoffrey rush really think of today's royals. ♪ i thought it was over here... ♪ [car horn honks]

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audiences love to hate academy award winner geoffrey rush as the evil captain bar boast in the "pirates of the caribbean films". >> what will we do? >> for now it's all about "the king's speech" playing the friend and speech therapist to perfection. >> jack and jill. went up the hill. >> went up the hill. >> little tommy tin. >> done. mark. >> and up comes the royal highness.

>> geoffrey was more than just one of the stars of the film, he also executive produced it. he and colin made movie magic 12 years ago in "shakespeare in love" but it was "shine" that won oscar gold in 1996. in addition to the oscar, the australian-born actor got a tony, emmy, two golden globes and three s.a.g. awards including one for best performance by an ensemble cast for "the king's speech." >> it shouldn't be called the s.a.g. award. it should be called the uplifting award. >> and we're joined by geoffrey rush in australia. geoffrey, that is you, geoffrey, is it? where is your hair? >> oh. i'm doing a film about humpty dumpty down here and i just thought this is the look i should go for. >> geoffrey and i both promised not to wear our wigs for this. i let him down. >> geoffrey, let me ask you in terms of your relationship on screen in this movie with colin, people are talking about it as one of the

great bromances we've ever seen in the movies. how would you describe your relationship with colin? >> well, we have been texting one another at various points to try and keep sane about the madness that's gone on around the film, and we do tend to refer to each other as thelma and louise. so far we haven't come up with that many male relationships which is a bit frightening. >> can i ask you both actually? colin, i'll ask you first, are you a monarchist? do you believe in the royal family? >> i think they seem very nice. >> colin, that is not an answer. >> you know, i -- i love this character, and i'm very drawn to everybody i have become familiar with in my imagination of the royal family. i don't know any of them. >> have you met any of them? >> i have briefly met prince charles, and i think he's a very, very interesting, very civil and civilized person.

i think the stuff he's doing at high grove with the organic farming and all that is very admirable. i think he's very courageous. >> do you think the institution is a good one? >> i really like voting. you know, it's one of my favorite things. >> unelected institution isn't really your cup of tea? >> it is a problem for me, yeah. unelect unelected -- >> geoffrey, what about you? obviously you're playing the therapist in this, not a member of the royal family. are you a monarchist? australia's been going through a pretty republican phase in the last few years. >> yes. look, i'm deeply fascinated by the whole history and heritage of the monarchy as a kind of massive historical soap opera. they've been very good to me because i've done just the most recent pirate film in the uk and the wonderful richard griffiths was playing george ii and my character of barbosa has gone over and is working as his assistant.

and with queen elizabeth i and then with colin as george vi, the royals have been very good for my career. >> that's not the same as saying you support the monarchy as an institution, geoffrey. >> it's been very good for all our careers. there's no shakespeare without kings and queens. half the drama of history is centered around royal life because i think, you know, the stakes are very high in that arena. >> no, i was going to say i do find that history terribly, terribly fascinating and the fact that in the past whole eras have been named after various monarchs, you know, i mean victoria was on the throne for 60-plus years or whatever but i suppose being an australian, you know, we still have the current queen elizabeth ii as our head of state and i think we probably should cut the apron strings and not in a rude way. i think there would always be an

honoring of that bond from the past, but i think it's time that we became -- took our own sort of adult steps. >> so basically what you're both telling me is that you may be starring in the biggest royal film of the year but you'd like them taken to the tower and off with their heads? >> no, no, not quite. well, you're fond of them obviously. let's move on to the more gripping power here which is that you're both up for oscars and depending on which magazine or newspaper you read, the odds on either of you seem to be shifting on a daily basis. have you had a private bet between each other as to who may actually walk away with the old statue? >> i'll let that one drift over to australia. >> geoffrey? >> i think helena bonham carter will get it and colin and i won't and we'll both be furious. >> is it just bloody nerve-racking, the oscars? anything like it in the movie

world? geoffrey, you have won, geoffrey. is it as nerve-racking as i imagine it would be? >> i's a postmodernist experience i think, piers. because you've seen other people, you know, you know what happens. my greatest memory of walking up to receive the statue in '97 was in my brain i could see the arthur murray footsteps, you know, marked out taking me up to the podium because i'd seen other people do it on television. so you're sort of -- you're sort of preprogrammed in. everyone -- and i think, you know, there are probably only remote tribes in new guinea that don't know about this ritual. next, one of hollywood's kookiest stars on playing the world's favorite royal, the queen mother. [ sneezes ] client's here.

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i'm just saying you could be king. you could do this. you could do it. >> that is treason. >> trying to get you realized you needn't be governed by fear. >> i have had enough of this. >> what are you so afraid of? >> your poisonous words. >> why did you come to me? are you going to keep hiding behind your stammer and -- >> oh, don't attempt to instruct me on my duties. >> come on. >> i am the son of a --

>> we're going to be joined very shortly, colin, by your other co-star, helena bodham carter who is in london, but before we do that, geoffrey, i know you are still with us. i wanted to ask you, you were the executive producer of this show. you sat on this amazing film for quite sometime. what was colin like to work for in terms of him working to you as a producer? >> that -- that credit, i think, is more on the creative side. i had been sent the script as a play script a couple of years ago and went in to bat for its development to become a screenplay through my agent in l.a. so i wasn't really involved with the financing or working out how much money we could scrape together to give -- throw colin's way. >> so you didn't get into any tawdry negotiation over his

salary or anything. that's what i was really hoping for. >> no. >> he doesn't know how much i was paid. >> it's a four-figure sum, colin. and it'll be a common -- >> i want to bring in helena now who's in london. helena, welcome. how are you? >> i'm very well. how are you? >> i'm very well. you played the queen mother. did you ever meet the queen mother? >> yeah, i did, actually. when i was very, very young. a long, long time ago at the premiere of :a room with a view" when i was about 18 and she was, you know, in her late '80s. i can't really remember but yeah, no, i did meet her and she was exactly what you'd think you'd -- she was an expert public figure. that's what i gather. i mean it's quite difficult playing the queen mum because everybody has -- she's such an iconic figure. lasted a long time and reading

any of the biographies, which i did, they're really, really thick and quite a lot to get through but there was a responsibility probably unlike colin and geoffrey who had really, frankly, the easy jobs. >> of course. >> i had to, you know, i was playing somebody, the only one that was probably recognizable, so i -- and you can't exactly phone up the daughter and say, tell me more because all i had was like a veneer, and then i sort of -- it was my job to get a bit underneath it. >> i met the queen mother as well, and, "a," she was absolutely tiny, 4'10" or something. minute. >> yeah. >> i mean she was 99 years old, but she was as smart as anyone i have met. she was super confident. she gave me a good kicking over various stories i've been publishing as an editor which i took like a man. but later i hearder explain to somebody the mystique of being the queen mother and the secret to her longevity in terms of public affection was that she believed in never explaining, never complaining and definitely never being heard

speaking in public. >> that's really interesting. i should have phoned you up before i played her. >> well, it's a complete opposite to most everything. >> she did speak. it was very -- but you know what was really difficult because i did want to find her speaking and it was very difficult to find. it was a very, very brief interview towards the end of her life when she was talking about the castle in maine and replayed and she made a few speeches during the war. but i didn't really give -- it was a public front. i just wanted to get some kind of rhythm of her. but those are really wise things that she said. i mean, she was a canny and very, very expert public figure. i think she was as good and as well equipped to do -- to be public as he wasn't. >> i agree. as the rose between two thorns in this particular interview, what were they like, these two, to work for? the two heavily-ego'd movie stars?

>> well, they talk a lot. i mean they talk a lot, both of them. in fact, you -- little known fact that colin had to overcome a compulsive talking disorder to play -- in order to play bertie. but you know what? i stayed well in the background. it was obviously a bromance. let them get on with it. it was only when geoffrey left that colin noticed me. >> nonsense. >> but, you know, i was basically irrelevant until geoffrey left and then it was suddenly like, ooh, would are you? >> you wouldn't notice her, would you? just look there. >> i think i would take notice of her. >> yeah. >> and -- >> but. no, you know, they're -- >> we tortured you. you were absolutely bang in the middle of the love triangle with tom, geoffrey and me. we were embracing you. >> it was a threesome, was it? you see -- now you tell me. i wish i had more with geoffrey. i mean geoffrey and me -- i mean, i had lots of stuff to do with colin

on the whole but i wish i had more with geoffrey. we had the first day and that was it. you know, i wish we had done more. >> helena, if i was to put a choice to you of threesomes, you, your brilliant husband tim burton and your favorite co-star johnny depp or this particular threesome, doesn't take long to decide which one you prefer? >> couldn't do a sixsome? i'm married to him and want a job from both. well, no, i want another job from the husband, but, you know, and colin and geoffrey, but in his position as a producer, no, you know what? they were a laugh. what's great about colin and geoffrey, although it's very difficult to compliment them when they're listening but they're really -- they're not only unbelievably bright, much brighter than me, but -- and brainy and so rigorous and they're really hard working. coming up, geoffrey and helena pass judgment on colin firth's singing talent. ♪

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my husband is -- well, he's required to speak publicly. >> behind every great man there's usually an even better woman and helena bodham carter plays the woman behind colin first's king george vi. she earned oscar nomination for "wings of a dove." since then she scored big with "sweeney todd." >> she poisoned herself. arsenic. >> "alice in wonderland." >> i love it letch as much as a love caviar. >> and harry potter films. >> pity, pity. harry potter. >> she filmed her role at the same time she was playing the queen mother in "the king's speech." >> and what if my husband were the duke of york? >> duke of york? >> yes. the duke of york. >> i thought the appointment was for johnson.

forgive me your -- >> royal highness. >> royal highness. >> johnson was used in the great war when the navy didn't want the enemy to know he was aboard. >> am i considered the enemy? >> you will be if you remain unobliging. >> the stars of "the king's speech" are oscar bound for a film that's all about courage, friendship and loyalty. well, we're about to test that friendship. have you heard colin singing in "mamma mia"? >> yeah. >> i'm glad you said that. have you, geoffrey? >> but then ask him. he's probably heard me. but i think geoffrey's probably the best singer out of the three of us. we could do a musical. >> no, i've got a better idea. >> we could do "the king's speech" as a musical. >> helena, i've got a better idea that obviously in my other role as a talent show judge in america and britain and "america's got talent" we thought it might be quite fun to appoint you temporary judges and to play a clip of colin singing.

>> oh, for heaven's sake. >> in all his majesty in "mamma mia" and your withering verdicts on this. >> all right. we are trying to get him nominated. ♪ i still see it all walks along the seine ♪ ♪ laughing in the rain our last summer ♪ ♪ memories that remain ♪ we made our way along the river and we sat down in the grass ♪ >> what are your early thoughts, helena? any thoughts? >> no, no. actually, you know what? i think he -- i wouldn't have done the beep. i'm enjoying listening to it. it could be my ringtone. >> geoffrey, i hope you're going to be rather more critical. >> i wish i could have seen the visuals with that. >> i know. i didn't see any visuals. >> it sounded like held florida was singing. >> he looked like something out of shirley valentine to be honest with you singing like susan boyle. >> you can be thankful you were spared the visuals. i would have liked to have been spared the audio, as well, frankly. i mean, i've actually --

helena, i don't know if you know this but i'm doing a talk-a-thon having lost my voice and speaking anyways which won't surprise you. lost my voice. >> he's got laryngitis. >> i've got laryngitis. >> when did you lose it? >> about 8:30 last night. >> you've finally got laryngitis. >> yes. >> you'velaryngitis. how old are you now because you haven't stopped talking for 50 years. >> she's quite right. she's qui. there will be some sort of divine intervention in losing my voice. i think people listening to that song, everyone will be saying, thank god. >> when we come back, helen and colin firth on sex appeal. [ male announcer ] this is james. the morning after the big move starts with back pain... and a choice. take advil now... and maybe up to 4 in a day. or, choose aleve and 2 pills for a day free of pain. smart move. ♪

you know, i refused your first two marriage proposals not because i didn't love you, because i couldn't bear the idea of a royal life, a life of

tours, public duty or a life that no longer really to be my own. then i thought -- >> i need to ask you this. we were talking earlier to colin about his sex symbol status. he was down playing this. what are your views on colin firth, the sex symbol? >> i did fancy him in his uniform, you know, with the medals. do you remember that one? >> yes. >> do you like him as darcy? >> yeah, yeah, i did, i did. i don't -- you know, of course, i did. i'd be a fool not to. >> you don't sound too keen on the latest version? >> no, i do. it's just i'm a married woman, i can't -- and i want the job for the next -- on the husband. so, no, no, no. i did -- i definitely fancied

him in his uniform and we didn't really get to -- that was one sad thing. >> would you fancy piers in the same uniform? >> no. i'm sorry, piers. i'm not susan boyle. a lot of people fancy you. have you ever had any -- have you ever fancied any of the contestants, piers? >> i was quite -- actually very fond of susan boyle. i thought she had an unusual attraction i find very appealing. >> i'm glad because -- ye because -- yeah -- no -- >> you should be pleased i'm attracted to the unusual looking. >> huh? >> you should be pleased i'm attracted to the unusual look. >> i have eyebrows. i think she was amazing -- i wasn't there, but when she started singing, it was truly magical. what did it actually feel like? >> to be at susan boyle's audition?

>> yeah. >> it was one of the most extraordinary things i have seen in my life. to see a woman come out, a 48-year-old spinster in a tiny scottish village and we're all snickering and watch her do what she did and see this week in the american album chart, she's number one with her second album, two number one albums outselling lady gaga is the stuff of dreams. it is an amazing story. >> it is. given the song was "i dreamed a dream." it's magic, absolutely hair raising. >> if su son boan boyle was her dreaming "i dreamed a dream," would your dream being standing there clutching the gong, clutching the speech you've been preparing for probably 40 years. >> at this extraordinary advanced age i've reached, not only the long term memory going,

the short-term memory is beginning begin ing to wither a little as well. all i think of now is how to get out of this interview unscathed. that's my dream. if there will be a tomorrow, somebody hopefully will be able to tell me about that. >> you will have received your star, your hollywood star. >> yes. >> what a moment. >> it is a moment. >> what would it be -- if you were to win an oscar for this, would it be the great moment of your career? is it the pinnacle? >> i don't know how much one even dare s s to contemplate, dreams on that scale, really. i don't -- no one would not love to win that statute, you know. nobody. even if you're not an actor, probably one of those things one would allow themself to dream about but if you ever dare dream about in any way real you would

actually aim at, it's beyond my thinking, really. >> have you thought who you would dedicate it to, if anybody? who would you be thinking of in that moment? >> you know -- >> chan i ch >> can i chip in here? >> go on, darling. >> me, do you remember? >> how can you forget. >> he couldn't have been king without her, so same same. just remember, short-term memory, i'll give you cue cards. if i don't get -- i'm sure i'll be on the sidelines somewhere supporting you, just remember. >> exactly, as jeffrey said it would be on a different foot having a very different conversation here. helena, it's jeffrey and me. >> i want to wish all three of you the best of luck. i loved the film, think it's one of the best films i've seen in a long time. all of you in different ways deserve great recognition in this awards season. thank you for coming here,