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Of course, Mark still needs a romantic rival; this time, it's played by ex-McDreamy himself, Patrick Dempsey. Firth originally confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that Dempsey is playing his rival: "He's a very different kind of rival. He's not somebody I've known since we were kids. He's an outsider and he threatens Mark Darcy in a very, very different way than Daniel Cleaver did."