Firth on Ford

COLIN FIRTH has revealed exclusively to VOGUE.COM that he has supreme confidence in Tom Ford's move from the design studio to the director's chair.

Firth will take the lead role in A Single Man, an adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's novel of the same name, which will mark Ford's first foray into film direction.

"If he turns his hand to this with the brilliance that he's turned his hand to everything else that he's ever done in his life, it'll be a masterpiece," Firth tells us.

Following on from his latest box office hit, feel-good musical Mamma Mia, Firth is certainly ready to get his teeth into the complexities of his character, a bereaved gay professor.

"It's the world seen though the eyes of a man who is seeing things for the last time and it has a particular resonance for that reason," he explains.

Filming starts this week in LA, with stars Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult and Ginnifer Goodwin also on board.

This story by Leisa Barnett

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