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Reel to real seductionCOLIN Firth went to the movies at the weekend to see a film he made three years ago and found himself watching the ritualised courtship of the girl who is now the mother of his baby son. The girl was American actress Meg Tilly and the film was the long-delayed Valmont, Milos Forman's version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses."I enjoyed the film, though I do think it misrepresents me as the actor I am now, but it was very strange watching Meg and me together." Valmont's tardy arrival - it opens in London next Friday - has not helped it at the box office, though it rises above comparisons with Liaisons, offering a visual feast on a wider canvas and a younger cast more playfully involved in their sexual conspiracies. He first declined Forman's invitation to play the title role. "I was filming in Argentina and it meant going to New York to see Milos. I wanted to stay in South America. I did hot have the interest to pursue it. It was so bizarre, two films going into production on the same subject. Once I read the script I saw how different it was going to be." Firth, now 31, looks little older than the student actor he was when he left drama school to join first the stage version, then the film, of Another Country. He starred in Richard Eyre's Falklands film, Tumbledown, played Pinter's The Caretaker in the West End earlier this year and now divides himself between two homes in two continents. He turned down Pinter's new play, Party Time,
for family reasons. "I'd just done one stage run and wanted time to be
with Meg and my son."
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