Kurt Iswarienko shoots suave Colin Firth for Manhattan's December 2009 issue. Inside, the A Single Man star, who seems bound for an Oscar nomination, says he's not too invested in this possibility:

"I'm too old to think this is some great new dawn for me. It's not. It will be what it is. Perhaps people will see this movie, or maybe they won't. Perhaps we'll win awards, but maybe we won't. If I had to make a guess, I'd say I will carry on doing what I did before. That's what happened when things felt special in the past, and it's what will happen again."

 

Balance and reason...so dreammmy!

Of the film's gay content, which has been as analyzed as a kid in ex-gay therapy, Firth says:

"You can argue that this movie is about the love that dare not speak its name, but that sounds too banal. It's really about sexual feeling; it's about isolation; it's about intimacy; it's about loss. Why differentiate between feeling and gay feeling? It's all human feeling."

More images after the jump...and caution: That man can wear a sweater...