A huge hit - it grossed $400m worldwide from a $15m production budget - did Hooper get a share? I bet he didn't. He had made The Damned United previously so wasn't a complete newbie. (Didn't really enjoy that or his The Danish Girl.) I was pleased that in the credits, Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush are billed side by side - quite right, it's a two-hander in which they both deserved the top award - as it happens BAFTA awarded them both, but Rush's was for best supporting actor - which is kind of nonsense. It was also interesting that Timothy Spall had a higher billing than Derek Jacobi, who's on-screen more, and just as good an actor. I must stop spending so much time dwelling on the credits...
Firth is soon to be in The Happy Prince, the last days of Oscar Wilde, written and directed by his buddy Rupert Everett.
Fully reviewed here. After swearing - "That's a side of you you don't see too often."
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