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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/firth-no-parody-in-kings-speech.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Colin Firth wanted to avoid turning his character in The King's Speech into a stereotypical British toff" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-firth-no-parody-in-kings-speech.jpg" alt="Colin Firth wanted to avoid turning his character in The King's Speech into a stereotypical British toff"/></a></p>
<p>Colin Firth has revealed he and Geoffrey Rush were careful not to become parodies of their characters in The King&#8217;s Speech.</p>
<p>The Oscar-nominated actor plays George VI in Tom Hooper&#8217;s critically acclaimed new film, while Geoffrey plays his unorthodox Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue, but Colin was keen they didn&#8217;t play a stereotypical aristocrat and Aussie.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;What we didn&#8217;t want it to be is Crocodile Dundee meets &#8216;snooty&#8217;.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think that would have been a very reductive and cheap way to go because there was a danger the joke was on that &#8211; the broad Australian and the repressed, stiff Brit &#8211; and I think there&#8217;s a lot more nuance than that.</p>
<p>&#8220;But it is two men who are, relatively speaking, obscure, even though one is a member of the royal family. But he&#8217;s the second son and the one in the shadows and not only because of a speech impediment but because of his shyness and his unwillingness to put himself forward.&#8221;</p>
<p>Colin is already tipped to win an Oscar for his part in the film.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what is going to happen next year but the fact that people are talking [about awards] is a sign of how positively they have responded to this. There&#8217;d be no point in this if there&#8217;s no audience and so people liking it I find irresistible.</p>
<p>&#8220;If somebody likes the work then thank you very much, I&#8217;ll take praise from anybody.&#8221;</p>
<p>:: The King&#8217;s Speech is released in cinemas on Friday, January 7</p>
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