SAG Awards Preview: Colin Firth

6:12 PM PST 11/17/2010 by Mimi Turner

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It's a dreary afternoon in West London, and I'm waiting to interview Colin Firth, an actor who has made the study of emotionally adrift aristocrats almost entirely his own -- no more so than in his new film, The King's Speech. So when he shows up informally dressed, prepared to engage and on a bicycle, it feels wholly unexpected.