SIMON PEGG AUDITIONED FOR THE FILM. The galleried atrium, decked out for Christmas, is that of , the vast Bayswater department store. Love Actually filming location: All You Need Is Love — actually: the wedding at Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, Mayfair, London The ultimate romcom package, with director delivering eight feelgood climaxes, and committing grievous bodily assault on the tearducts. One of the snaps sees her partner posing with a grown-up Olivia Olson, aka Joanna who sang All I Want for Christmas Is You at the school concert.
Love Actually filming location: All You Need Is Love — actually: the wedding at Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, Mayfair, London The ultimate romcom package, with director delivering eight feelgood climaxes, and committing grievous bodily assault on the tearducts. The movie opens and closes at , with 's voiceover reassuring us of the ubiquity of warm, fuzzy feelings. The shots of emotional travellers were grabbed documentary-style. Your furtive assignation won't be up there on the big screen — everyone who's featured gave permission to be in the film. Love Actually filming location: dressed for Christmas: Whiteley's, Bayswater, London This is a romcom, so we get the inevitable establishing shots of the city. The galleried atrium, decked out for Christmas, is that of , the vast Bayswater department store. The central court of Somerset House in the Strand, saw sterling service as a movie location over the years , Sleepy Hollow etc when it was a rather dull parking lot. The shop assistant character , who makes such an elaborate job of wrapping the gift, was originally meant to be a recurring deus ex machina angel character which is why he reappears with an unexplained knowing smile at the airport towards the end of the film. One of the first great department stores, there's been a Selfridges on this site since 1909. The recording studio, where Billy Mack records his cheesy Christmas record, is Westway Studios, Ladbroke Grove in Notting Hill. His record company office is unmistakably City Hall, the London Assembly Building on the South Bank alongside Tower Bridge. It was an empty office — now a solicitors — at 26-27 Great Sutton Street, in Clerkenwell — which was 's neighbourhood in. Slightly further east along the walk is the Oxo Tower Wharf complex, home to Mark, where he embarrassedly leaves Juliet with the wedding video. He exits the flat by the rear entrance of the wharf building on Barge House Street, through the courtyard to Oxo Tower Wharf itself. The Prime Minister and Natalie attend a school concert at Elliott School, Pullman Gardens, Putney, southwest. The church in which Peter marries Juliet to the unexpected strains of All You Need Is Love, is the Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, in the exclusive Mayfair district. What is it with racecourses standing in for airports? The radio studio, where Billy Mack reveals that his record is crap and that Britney Spears was a lousy shag, is Heat Radio, Mappin House, 4 Winsley Street, W1. The original script called for him to carpet the mews with rose petals — a gesture which surely would have had every female in the audience shoving a finger down her throat and gagging. Surrey: , Esher rail: Esher, from London Waterloo Trivia The British romcom is being honed to a solid box-office formula: quality cast, slickly crafted script there's a novelty in itself , audience-grabbing musical moment, a tearjerkingly satisfying wrap-up and that inevitable fixture of the genre,. Maybe in years to come they'll be remembered as fondly as the Ealing comedies or the Carry Ons. The undisputed king of the genre has to be , writer of , and.