Geoffrey Rush, Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actor for “The King’s Speech”, said to HFPA journalists: “Director Tom Hooper said something quite wonderful, that you don’t have to be a stammerer to get the theme of the film, because that is just the dramatic device. The metaphor is: How do we find our better selves? That should be our life’s goal, and falling short of that is what keeps us human, because unless you’re Gandhi or a Tibetan Buddhist monk, I don’t think you ever reach a state of complete perfect being.”