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Everett Vs. Firth: Battle of the Brits
8 May 2003 (WENN)
British actors Rupert Everett and Colin Firth have fallen out again - just a year after filming The Importance Of Being Earnest. The suave stars have endured a long-running feud, but after working on the Oscar Wilde adaptation last year they seemed to have laid the past to rest. However, now Firth has revealed he still dislikes Everett. He says, "I've never been able to stand Rupert but on set we managed to get on really very well. Rupert and I hate each other because we are very different. I find him a frightfully sophisticated person. He thought I was too serious. We didn't take to each other but this is a story I would never have revealed to the public if he hadn't done so during the promotion of our film."

Firth's 'No Audition' Rule Loses Poet Part
2 September 2002 (WENN)
British actor Colin Firth missed out on the chance to play poet Ted Hughes opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in a new film - because he refused to audition for the part. The Bridget Jones's Diary star, currently starring in The Importance Of Being Earnest, was first choice to star in Ted And Sylvia, a twin biopic about the lives of Hughes and his American poet wife Sylvia Plath. Firth believed his distinguished acting career and the fact that he starred in Pride And Prejudice - one of the BBC's most successful period dramas ever - would be enough to convince the publicly-owned broadcaster to give him the part without a screen test. Instead the role went to lesser-known Road To Perdition star Daniel Craig. A film insider says, "Daniel Craig gave a fantastic screen test. When we played Gwyneth the videotape she was incredibly excited by his performance. It's a shame Colin won't be part of the project but everyone is convinced Daniel will be exceptional in the role." The movie ran into problems earlier this month director Paul Pavlikovsky left after a disagreement about the script.

Reese Witherspoon's Baby Talk
30 July 2001 (WENN)
Legally Blonde star Reese Witherspoon's daughter Ava is proving she already has a talent for acting - she loves to do imitations. The American tot can speak with an English accent - and she's only two. Mother and daughter have just spent three months in London, where Reese has been filming The Importance Of Being Earnest alongside British stalwarts Dame Judi Dench, Colin Firth and Rupert Everett and the little girl picked up the accent while hanging around other toddlers on the set.

A New Ealing Comedy Is Coming
1 May 2001 (StudioBriefing)
For the first time since 1957, the Ealing comedy logo will be attached to a new film when a remake of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest is released next year, the British newspaper The Guardian reported today (Tuesday). The $15-million film starring Rupert Everett, Judi Dench and Reese Witherspoon recently began shooting in the west London studio, now owned by the BBC, where such classics as Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Man in the White Suit, The Lavender Hill Mob and The Ladykillers were produced.