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Peter Straughan and boasts a host of acting talent, such as Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Claire Foy, Mark Gatiss and Jonathan Pryce. Once owned by Henry VIII, the estate at Penshurst Place, with its formal Elizabethan gardens, provided the ideal setting for the 2008 big screen version of Philippa Gregory’s bestselling 2001 novel, The Other Boleyn Girl. Set at the court of Henry VIII, the screenplay tells the story of 16th century aristocrats Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson), one-time mistress of King Henry VIII (Eric Bana) and her sister, Anne (Natalie Portman), who became the monarch’s ill-fated second wife. While the story may have been distorted though history, the family’s connections to Kent are genuine; Thomas Boleyn inherited nearby Hever Castle from his grandfather in 1505 and continued to live there with his wife and three children – George, Mary and Anne.
After his death, Henry VIII took over the estate and bestowed it to his fourth wife Anne of Cleaves as part of their divorce settlement in 1540.
Filming for The Other Boleyn Girl also took place at Dover Castle, which again
doubled as the Tower of London, and the Tudor house and deer park at Knole, in Sevenoaks, which acted as Whitehall Palace.
Pluckley Village
The small Kentish village of Pluckley provided the setting for the 1991-93 ITV production The Darling Buds of May, which followed the life of a boisterous family living on a small holding in 1950s rural Kent.
Adapted from
H.E.Bates’ novel of the same name, the award-winning series starred David Jason and Pam Ferris as Pop
and Ma Larkin, and their daughter Mariette, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones. As well as in Pluckley, production took place in Tenterden, Folkestone, the Shepherd Neame Brewery and at the isolated St Thomas a Becket Church near Fairfi eld, on Romney Marsh (also used in the 2011 movie of Great Expectations).
• With thanks to Kent Film Offi ce (kentfi lmoffi
ce.co.uk)
St Thomas a Beckett Church, near Fairfi eld
And the 2015 Oscar nominations are…
BEST PICTURE • American Sniper • Boyhood
• Birdman • The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Imitation Game • Selma • The Theory of Everything • Whiplash
BEST ACTOR • Steve Carell (Foxcatcher) • Bradley Cooper (American Sniper) • Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game) • Michael Keaton (Birdman) • Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
BEST ACTRESS • Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night) • Felicity Jones (The Theory Of Everything) • Julianne Moore (Still Alice) • Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) • Reese Witherspoon (Wild)
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