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Oprah: In the new Bridget Jones movie, Hugh Grant plays Colin Firth’s archrival and competition for Bridget Jones’ affections. You’ve known him a long time. Colin, right? 

Hugh: Afraid so. 

Oprah: Okay, will you do us the honors of introducing him? Come on. 

Hugh: Oh, God. Dreary old British actor. Been around for ages. Played all kinds of roles from Mr. Darcy in the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice right through to Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones 1, right through to Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones 2. One of Britain’s most versatile actors. Colin Firth. 

Oprah: We'll talk to Colin Firth when we get back. 

Oprah: The stars of the new Bridget Jones movie are back together for the first time. Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth. The movie opens up Friday, November 19. Welcome. Welcome to the show. 

Colin: Thank you. 

Oprah: So now, you know, as you walked in, women are swooning over you. What’s that like for you, Colin? 

Colin: Was that for me? [looks down the sofa at Hugh]

Oprah: Yeah, yeah. Women were swooning. 

Colin: Because I saw Hugh sort of taking that... 

Hugh: It was mainly for me, but I’ll... 

Oprah: What does that feel like? 

Colin: Now, it feels fantastic. I’m very happy about that. Yes, thank you. I’ll take what I can get. 

Oprah: Has that one line from the movie followed you through—I like you just as you are—because that’s what every woman is looking for to hear. 

Colin: It amazes me the impact that that line has, because I would’ve thought it’s a fairly obvious thing you would say to a partner. It seems incredible how much hunger for that sort of affirmation there is out there. I know a lot of people say. 'it goes without saying..." 

Oprah: Uh huh. 

Colin:...and then that’s when you get the cry of protest because, "No, you have to say it!" 

Oprah: You need to say it. You need to say it. 

Colin: Yeah, yeah. 

Oprah: Well, in the movie, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant play enemies and in this dramatic and dangerous fight scene, you should know that there were no rehearsals and no stunt men were used. Take a look. [clip of the EOR fight scene]

We love that! So what did you guys do first before said we’re justgoing to go for it. Is that was you did? 

Colin: Well, pretty much. I mean, Hugh, I felt was, in spite of his considerable character defects, is brilliant judging comedy and I think it was very much his idea when we did the first film to dispense with the stunt man idea. No self-respecting stunt man would put his name to it [laughter] and any fight that Hugh and I were capable of anyway. 

Oprah: That’s funny. 

Colin: When he saw how we were getting on, I think we all just thought, “let‘s play to our strengths, as you might call them. We did it according to our own sense of our won masculinity. [shoots another look down at Hugh] I think... 

Hugh: Literally as well as one of these things where truth meets comedy because that is how two middle-class, educated Englishmen I think would fight. No question about it. 

Colin: And the last fight I had, my last violent confrontation when I was probably about five years old looked exactly like that. 

Oprah: Really? Have you ever actually been in a fight? 

Hugh: Oh, God, no. I’ll run... 

Oprah: Just as your character and Colin did. 

Hugh: Yeah. 

Oprah: We’ll be right back. That’s pretty funny. 

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Oprah: What would you say was your favorite film, other than the one you just finished, Bridget Jones? 

Colin: Of anything I’ve ever done? 

Oprah: Yeah. 

Colin:Shakespeare in Love, perhaps. 

Oprah: And you, sir? What would you say? 

Hugh: Um, one of the few I can look at without wincing: About ABoy. I thought I was... 

Oprah: You didn’t love yourself in Sense and Sensibility? 

Hugh: Oh no, no, no! 

Oprah: You didn’t? I did. 

Hugh: A rather unflattering costume, like [hands miming a high cravat about the neck]

Oprah: No, really. I loved you there too, but About A Boy was great. 

Hugh: Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Yes. 

Oprah: And I read the book. It wasn’t exactly like the book, but itwas really good. 

Hugh: Yeah, we really did depart from the book in that one, but I think you have to do that. We’ve been quite free with Bridget Jones 2 in a way. 

Oprah: Yeah. 

Hugh: Very free when you think my character doesn’t appear in the second book at all. 

Colin: That was why I was attracted to doing it. 

Oprah: No, he wasn’t. Okay. Hugh was saying he was vile on set. Is that true? 

Colin: No, he’s not. The strange thing is that Hugh and I hardly meet at all. We only meet to pull each other’s hair and scratch. We’ve done three films now and that’s all we’ve done. In the firstfilm, we... 

Hugh: We developed an appetite for it. We had a little scrap backstage just now. 

Colin: We do it in our spare time now. 

Oprah: We’ll be right back. Bridget Jones.