When the Academy nominated The King’s Speech for Best Art Direction, they probably didn’t know that one of the film’s key settings was also the location of a shoot for UK Naked Men, a porn studio “featuring hung, uncut and horny naked men having great sex.”
Most of The King’s Speech takes place in the sparse, run-down consulting room of Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue. According to the film’s production designer Eve Stewart, the crew shot inside 33 Portland Place, a building with “an unusual vaulted room with large leaded windows at one end, reminiscent of a Venetian palace, and roof lights that make it look a bit like an artist’s studio… [it] also has extraordinary walls, decorated in distressed browns and oranges like an exotic damaged fresco.”
QueerClick (NSFW) ran a side-by-side comparison of screen shots from the movie and promotional stills from UK Naked Men and made note of the similar windows, skylights, and walls. They also rhetorically wondered, “Did [actor Geoffrey] Rush taste the faint hint of semen and man-pussy in the air and think, ‘Ahhhhh! History!’?” I’m guessing … no.
But just like like the critically acclaimed film, the gay smut filmed on the same location definitely carries some throat-y storylines.
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Red Meat
Will this be the excuse of gay people who wanted TKS to win every Oscar when they lose this one? I can tell you right now its going to win because it has the weakest, most unoriginal art direction of the 5 nominees.
Harbo
“The King’s Speech” is the BEST movie I’ve seen in years. Hope it wins everything.
Xtincta
I HATED TKS!!!! It was such a dry, monotonous movie. This actually make me like it a bit more though cause’ I have this scene lol.
Marcus
@Harbo:
Well, it won the Art Directors Guild award last week and they vote in that Oscar category, and Black Swan isn’t even in that category, so it is the frontrunner.
Labi Ajeti
i love this movie was good too shum mir paske dal
surfer
Nice movie i have seen.