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* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/SallyHawkins, who usually plays working class characters, plays the upper-class Susan.
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* ActingInTheDark: Only Imelda Staunton knew that the topic was abortion ahead of time. And even she didn't know that Vera would be arrested until the actors playing the police knocked on the door of the house they were rehearsing in.
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* ActingInTheDark: Only Imelda Staunton knew that the topic of the movie was abortion ahead of time. And even she didn't know that Vera would be arrested until the actors playing the police knocked on the door of the house they were rehearsing in.
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* StarMakingRole: Imelda Staunton was a respected theatre actress beforehand with a couple of notable film roles (''Film/ShakespeareInLove''). But her Oscar nominated performance here brought her to mainstream attention.
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* StarMakingRole: Imelda Staunton was a respected theatre actress beforehand with a couple of notable film roles (''Film/ShakespeareInLove''). But her Oscar nominated Oscar-nominated performance here brought her to mainstream attention.
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** Vera's family's reaction during the scene above where she's arrested. The other cast members were genuinely surprised.
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--> "Those two worlds were forever colliding. So you get the one world and its relationship with the other going on in my films."
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--> "Those two worlds were forever colliding. So you get the one world and its relationship with the other going on in my films.""
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* ActingInTheDark: Only Imelda Staunton knew that the topic was abortion ahead of time. And even she didn't know that Vera would be arrested until the actors playing the police knocked on the door of the house they were rehearsing in.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Mike Leigh got his cast together for six months of improvisation and rehearsals to properly develop a family dynamic.
* NoBudget: The budget was so tight that they ran out of money shortly before shooting finished.
* SerendipityWritesThePlot: When the actors hum, they hum generic songs because the film couldn't get the rights to actual ones.
* SleeperHit: The film was turned down at the Cannes Film Festival, and Imelda Staunton thought it would be an AcclaimedFlop. But then it was a hit at the Venice Film Festival and ended up with Oscar nominations.
* StarMakingRole: Imelda Staunton was a respected theatre actress beforehand with a couple of notable film roles (''Film/ShakespeareInLove''). But her Oscar nominated performance here brought her to mainstream attention.
* ThrowItIn: The film was largely improvised to get a realistic vibe.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Daniel Mays initially used a lot of curse words during rehearsals, feeling it fit his character. Mike Leigh however told him that a working class boy like Sid in 1950 would not curse so much around women or his family.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Mike Leigh created the CultureClash based off his own childhood, where had lived in a working class neighborhood, and had relations living in more affluent areas nearby.
--> "Those two worlds were forever colliding. So you get the one world and its relationship with the other going on in my films."
* EnforcedMethodActing: Mike Leigh got his cast together for six months of improvisation and rehearsals to properly develop a family dynamic.
* NoBudget: The budget was so tight that they ran out of money shortly before shooting finished.
* SerendipityWritesThePlot: When the actors hum, they hum generic songs because the film couldn't get the rights to actual ones.
* SleeperHit: The film was turned down at the Cannes Film Festival, and Imelda Staunton thought it would be an AcclaimedFlop. But then it was a hit at the Venice Film Festival and ended up with Oscar nominations.
* StarMakingRole: Imelda Staunton was a respected theatre actress beforehand with a couple of notable film roles (''Film/ShakespeareInLove''). But her Oscar nominated performance here brought her to mainstream attention.
* ThrowItIn: The film was largely improvised to get a realistic vibe.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Daniel Mays initially used a lot of curse words during rehearsals, feeling it fit his character. Mike Leigh however told him that a working class boy like Sid in 1950 would not curse so much around women or his family.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Mike Leigh created the CultureClash based off his own childhood, where had lived in a working class neighborhood, and had relations living in more affluent areas nearby.
--> "Those two worlds were forever colliding. So you get the one world and its relationship with the other going on in my films."
