Colin Firth discusses new film Rae Wilson, APN Newsdesk | 19th June 2012 1:46 PM (Fraser Coast Chronicle)

COLIN Firth will always remember Ipswich as the place he was dragged across a rail yard, thrown in a cell and kicked.

He joked he was not sure he had the full picture of the area when he spoke to media at the Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast on Tuesday.

The Oscar-winning King's Speech actor is in Australia to film the historical film The Railway Man.

Though the film, relating the experience of a prisoner of war on the Burma Railway, was predominately filmed in Asia, some of it has been produced at the North Ipswich Railyards and around the Gold Coast.

Firth said it was difficult to play such a tortured role while he was staying on the Gold Coast.


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Colin Firth's tortured role as a WWII prisoner of war was difficult to pull off while living in 'paradise' by: Fiona Purdon From: The Courier-Mail

"We are all in love with the Gold Coast, it's hard to get inside the mind of a tortured person, surrounded by paradise and relaxed and chilled people, it's been bliss, it's hard to go to work and work yourself up into a state of torment," Firth said.

Firth wrapped up his three days of Queensland filming on Monday and was leaving Australia after today's press conference with co-stars Sam Reid, playing a Pow, and Hiroyuki Sanada, the Japanese torturer of Firth's character Eric Lomax.



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