A guest blog post from actor and London Walker Ian Grieve who stars as former Prime Minister Gordon Brown in tomorrow night's Channel 4 drama Coalition. Here he guides us through some of the locations used in the filming...
You are needed in Downing Street the day after tomorrow.
It is a very sobering thing to be told you would be good casting for Gordon Brown. I had still managed to exist under the illusion that I could play Heathcliffe in the next remake of Wuthering Heights.
Yes we did go to Downing Street on that first day (see pic at the top of this post). It is an amazing place. The first thing that struck me after we made it through security was that Downing Street is exactly like the houses The Beatles walk into in the film Help! It doesn't matter which door you walk through it is all one big interconnected building. If you want to know what it's like inside the door at Number 10, then watch the beginning of the film Love Actually when Hugh Grant drives up outside in his blue Jag and walks in the front door - all one shot - and definitely the actual location. Now how did they wangle that?
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