LONDON, U.K. -- 
Caption It’s Colin Firth, but not as we know him. He’s 12 feet (3.7 meters) tall and made of fiberglass.
A
statue of brooding Mr. Darcy, the character played by Firth in “Pride
and Prejudice” was installed Monday in London’s Serpentine lake.
The
figure shows Darcy emerging from the water in a soaked shirt,
recreating a scene from the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen’s
novel.
The scene helped turn Firth into a sex symbol and is regularly voted among Britain’s most memorable TV moments.
One
of the sculptors, Toby Crowther, said the work took the lake scene as a
starting point but also drew on other depictions of Austen’s romantic
hero.
The
statue, which shows Darcy from the waist up, was placed amid the swans
and swimmers in the Hyde Park lake to promote Drama, a new TV channel
dedicated to British programs.
It
is scheduled to go on display at several locations before being
installed in a lake in Lyme Park, northwest England, where the scene was
filmed. It will remain there until February.
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