VENICE, Italy (AP) — Best Actor Oscar winner Colin Firth says he was all too happy to take a step down to supporting actor for his "meaty" new role in "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy."
"It was great to have something that was meaty enough to get my teeth into, but let other people do the heavy lifting." Firth told journalists at the Venice Film Festival Monday. "It's basically all I did last year and it suited me very well."
Firth — who won the Oscar for "The King's Speech" and was nominated for the same award for "A Single Man" — plays the calm, collected intelligence agent Bill Haydon, a counter point character to the films lead Gary Oldman, playing the main character, retired …
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