'His majesty's pleasure … The King's Speech sets used for gay porn
London property used to film Oscar frontrunner was previously hired for a porn film
Its distinctive decaying wallpaper and Palladian windows made it an atmospheric double for speech therapist Lionel Logue's 1930s treatment rooms in bromantic [sic] Oscar frontrunner The King's Speech. Yet that was not the first time the property at 33 Portland Place, London, has caught the eye of film-makers. Reports confirm that in 2008 it was also used as a location for gay porn film, Snookered...
The rooms are owned by Lord Edward Davenport, described on his own website as "one of Britain's most flamboyant entrepreneurs, a businessman renowned for taking chances and living a life of adventure". The £30m property was once the location of the high commission for Sierra Leone but was taken over by Davenport, who was initially hired to refurbish it, in the late 1990s following a legal wrangle. In an interview with the Independent three years ago, Davenport's press secretary boasted that the rooms were used for orgiastic parties.'
Guardian Thursday 24 February 2011
& we danced there, too...
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This amazing building was the best thing about the movie, I thought, although I loved the performances too.
And are you saying you went to a tango party there???
Well, I also danced in Hamlet's castle in Copenhagen, so there.
Yes! It was the best Sunday night milonga in London for over a year! We knew it was also used as a film set, but it wasn't until the milonga closed down that we started to hear rumours about what kind of film... and the parties...
Haven't seen the King's Speech yet. Like Hamlet's castle, that's still to come!
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