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TIFF Party: Nicole Kidman holds court and Colin Firth is downright dashing at The Railway Man after-party

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TIFF Party: The Railway Man
(Image: George Pimentel/Getty Images)

Sure, confirming that Colin Firth is dashing doesn’t exactly rank high on the revelatory scale (in other news, the sky is blue, tiny tacos are delicious). But still, the man is as dashing, maybe even more dashing, than all of us Mr. Darcy fans ever expected him to be at the after-party for the TIFF screening of his new movie The Railway Man, held at the Live at the Hive on King West and hosted by Moet and Chandon, one of the 2013 film fest’s buzziest party locations (bee pun intended!). 

Firth wore the crap out of his tux (of course, when a man can wear the crap out of a Christmas sweater, a tux isn’t much of a challenge). He spent most of the party chatting on the back patio, and he even posed for a snap or two with fans. He bummed a cigarette, had an animated conversation that involved acting out a fight sequence and was overheard referencing his musical movie Mama Mia... so he must have been in a good mood. A really good mood.

Meanwhile, co-star Nicole Kidman  held court inside, sipping a Soda Stream cocktail (Soda Stream is the fancy make-your-own-fizzy-water company that sponsored the event) and doing some impressive suit wearing of her own in a black Altuzarra number with racy, lacy cutouts. After a long day of red carpet pounding, Kidman refuelled on a chocolate cupcake and gave her little piggies a rest by slipping out of her Louis Vuitton pumps. Achy feet and a chocolate hankering: the stars really are just like us!

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Courtney Shea is a freelance journalist in Toronto. She started her career as an intern at Toronto Life and continues to contribute frequently to the publication, including her 2022 National Magazine Award–winning feature, “The Death Cheaters,” her regular Q&As and her recent investigation into whether Taylor Swift hung out at a Toronto dive bar (she did not). Courtney was a producer and writer on the 2022 documentary The Talented Mr. Rosenberg, based on her 2014 Toronto Life magazine feature “The Yorkville Swindler.”

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