Let's face it - The King's Speech is going to pick up an Oscar or two. And deservedly so - I loved the film and was absolutely enthralled by Hoopers use of colour to reflect the personalities in the film. The wall in Logues practice had a personality all of it's own - "decorated in distressed browns and oranges like an exotic damaged fresco, if in autumnal colours. When the team arrived, one area was covered in wallpaper infused with oil, which had then been half-scraped, half-burned off. Eve Stewart, the production designer, loved the mottled, peeling effect so much that she decided to reproduce it across the whole wall. The room became so striking that very little furniture was required, and the almost empty set gives the actors space..."
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