Colin Firth to voice Paddington bear in movie

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The star of ‘The King’s Speech’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice’ will be joined by Australian actress Nicole Kidman,’Downtown

Abbey’s’ Hugh Boneville as the bear’s adoptive father Mr Brown.

“I’ll be wearing a helmet with cameras to capture my face muscles,and that data will somehow be incorporated into

Paddington,” he said.

Firth also added he will speak the dialect with a “slightly Peruvian flavour”,which will be entraining in itself.

Firth was convinced to join the project by the film’s director Paul King.

Kidman also commented,expressing her pleasure with joining the production,”I just had to do the bear film. My agent called and said,’We’ve got this offer from London for you to be in a film about a Paddington Bear.’ And I said,’You mean the Paddington Bear?!”

It is set for release during Christmas 2014.