COLIN FIRTH - FIRTH BLASTS 'CATASTROPHIC' SURGERY FOR ACTORS

FIRTH BLASTS 'CATASTROPHIC' SURGERY FOR ACTORS

COLIN FIRTH has lashed out at actors who go under the knife to remain youthful - insisting it is "catastrophic" for big screen stars to undergo cosmetic procedures.
The 48 year old - who turns 49 on Thursday (10Sep09) - stars in the remake of Dorian Gray, the adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel about a man who stays eternally young after trapping his soul in a portrait.
But Firth is convinced actors should not try to halt the ageing process - because stars can't express themselves on-screen if they have their faces tampered with.
He says, "Your face is supposed to move if you're going to act. Why on earth would you take a violin and make the strings so that they don't vibrate?
"Injecting something in to your face so it's paralysed, or cutting bits of it up so that you take any signs of life out of it is catastrophic if you're going to express yourself in any way at all."