It’s a truth universally acknowledged that Colin Firth playing Pride and Prejudice’s Mr Darcy, in that wet shirt, was possibly the best TV moment of all time. And now, there is a 12-foot version of the character floating in the Serpentine in London’s Hyde Park.
Mr Darcy taking his iconic impromptu dip… only bigger.
Just the thought of that dripping, muscular torso as the actor emerged from the lake after an impromptu swim, makes us rather hot under the collar and luckily for us, now we can even take a dip alongside a fiberglass statue of superhuman proportions.
The model was commissioned by new UK TV channel Drama after the moment from the 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s famous book ranked top in a poll of best TV scenes.
The big man took three sculptors over two months to create (if this was us, we would have liked to focus on the abs, obvs).
Lead sculptor Toby Crowther said: ‘The challenge for us was capturing the spirit of Darcy as handsome and noble but aloof and proud.’
Non-Londoners fret not, the model will tour the UK before settling in Lyme Park, Cheshire, where the episode was filmed.
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