The King's Speech/Trivia


 * Fake Nationality:
 * Fake American: Eve Best was born in London.
 * Fake Brit: The Australian Guy Pearce as Edward VIII.
 * Fake Australian: Jennifer Ehle was born in North Carolina.
 * Playing Against Type: Timothy Spall as Winston Churchill. He is usually known for playing repulsive villains such as Peter Pettigrew and the villainous sidekick in Enchanted.
 * Role Association: Among other things, most of the cast of this movie are also in the Harry Potter movies.
 * Perhaps not entirely surprising, since the Potter movies always cast the cream of British talent.
 * More specifically, Peter Pettigrew is Winston Churchill, Dumbledore is George V, and Bellatrix Lestrange is Queen Mum.
 * Ed Exley gave up the throne to marry Dr. O'Hara.
 * Barbossa is a speech therapist?
 * And he's married to Elizabeth Bennet?
 * Brother Cadfael is the Archbishop.
 * The Master is organizing the coronation of Mr. Darcy while Mr. Collins is the leader of a theater company.
 * Not only that, Kazran Sardick (and his dad) is King George V.
 * Karen is Princess Margaret.
 * Michael Gambon had also played George V's father Edward VII in the acclaimed 2003 BBC The Lost Prince miniseries, about Bertie's younger brother who died of epilepsy.
 * Sir Percy Blakeney is Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.
 * Shout-Out - Just a bit of one, in John Boorman's Hope And Glory. The family is listening to George VI give a speech on the radio and the father says "He's sounding better, isn't he."
 * What Could Have Been: Paul Bettany was the first choice to play King George VI, but turned it down.
 * Hugh Grant was also offered the part (he had played a stutterer before) and Robert Downey, Jr. was considered, too.