Colin Firth didn't want to speak to murderer Michael Peterson before playing him
Colin Firth avoided speaking with murderer Michael Peterson before playing him in 'The Staircase'. The 61-year-old actor plays the real-life author, who was convicted of murdering his second wife Kathleen Peterson (Toni Collette), in the HBO Max true-crime drama, and he insisted it would have disrupted the "very carefully calibrated" story if he'd discussed it with Peterson. Firth explained to Deadline: "I felt the way the script was structured and just the whole approach of this was its own ecosystem, so to speak. “These are created characters but we all know what the source is. “We all know ...