Colin Firth jokes about being a sex symbol

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00:00You have been with your wife now, I believe. Is it for 17 years you've been with her?

00:03I think that sounds right, yes.

00:05Well, what did she make of you being held up as a sex symbol? What was her take on that?

00:10Well, once the laughter had died down, the next job was to try and persuade the rest of her family.

00:15Because I was in Italy at the time we'd just met, and I proudly swaggered in among my in-laws

00:20and announced the fact that I was now a heartthrob.

00:25They had the same response that she had had, and I went home rather hurt.

00:34And then it started to become a kind of almost sociological study among the family.

00:44Do English people find constipated repression sexy?

00:49And I remember my mother-in-law saying, so is John Major also sexy?

00:55Yeah.