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Colin Firth to play banker in Mary Poppins Returns!

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Colin Firth might be reuniting with his former onscreen love interest Emily Blunt for Mary Poppins Returns.

According to Variety, the 56-year-old Oscar winner is in the running to play Fidelity Fiduciary Bank president, William Weatherall Wilkins.

The Disney musical – set 25 years after the 1964 original – stars Ben Whishaw and Emily Mortimer as the grown-up versions of Michael and Jane Banks.

Who doesn’t love a good British story with Firth giving his dry witty responses?