I’m delirious right now! I don’t think I’ll ever get over the handshake with him!! So, here it goes.
The King’s Speech premiered in Leicester Square tonight at the London Film Festival. The movie opened at 7pm but I couldn’t get a ticket. I saw ppl on forum saying that they’d arrive by 4pm. Well, as for last night, I was still supposed to attend a back-up class from 5:30-6:30pm. Today they changed the allocation and I needed not stay until 6:30pm. I thought about leaving school and going to Leicester Square right away. But (the big ‘but’), Prof John Harris is amazing!!! I couldn’t forgive myself if I didn’t sit in his lecture from 4-5pm. Given that the back-up class had been reschduled, I could have stayed for the back-up for John’s class until 6pm. But, today I just couldn’t stay. I was tired and the content was so difficult that I couldn’t focus. I went to Leicester Square after the lecture ended at 5pm.
So much gibberish and here is the bit. There weren’t many ppl when I arrived at 5:30pm. I got a place right behind the fence. Next to me was a lady who was originally from AUS and she happened to live around Colin Firth’s neighbourhood some time ago. Cool! She happened to be around Leicester Square tonight and stopped by for the premiere. She said she’d been to movies premiere a few times and she told me how the limos were gonna come in.
The first one who arrived was Geoffrey Rush! Then there came Tom Hooper (director), Helena Bonham-Carter and Ben Kingsley. And of course, at last, Colin Firth!!! Frankly, I didn’t expect I could actually see him in real a few hours ago. Then, he was just 30 feet away. I was more than happy to just catch a glimpse of him. So we waited.
And he came back! After some 20 mins. But come on, it was worth the wait. He came to our side. I held my hand out. His publicist was standing behind him tell him to go away and HE SHOOK MY HAND!!! It was so warm. I mean literally warm. I really needa give him some credits for giving my freezing hand quite a strong grip. And afterwards I screamed to ppl 'HE SHOOK MY HAND!' I'm sure they wanted to kill me.
Well, I'm not his biggest fan for sure. I don't drool over Mr. Darcy in a wet-shirt like most women do in the UK. But I've seen 17 of his movies, got 11 on DVD/VCDs, and watched P+P 5 times. But c'mon! He shook my hand!
Lucky me! I never had chances to go to such events in HK. This is my very first ‘Colin Firth event’ and HE SHOOK MY HAND!!!HE SHOOK MY HAND!!!
Now I’ve got my own calendar, photos and a handshake. I’m gonna go to the BAFTAs and probably any premiere of his movies.
I love London!
