The King's Speech

SlitheyTove
Tue, 04 Jan 2011 23:05:38 +0000

calmom, I watched the Katie Couric interview with Colin Firth. He said that a few weeks before filming started, they got in contact with some of Logue’s descendents, who asked if the filmmakers would like access to Logue’s papers and diaries. Well, Yes!!! Firth said that it was clear from the diaries that the screenwriter had guessed correctly about the tenor of the friendship between the King and Logue, at least as far as humor went. The bit of dialogue after the speech (where Logue says that Bertie stammered on some W’s and the King replies that he had to throw in a few of those so people would know it was him) was taken almost verbatim from Logue’s diaries.