Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch join Condé Nast Traveler to test their movie location knowledge. ‘The Roses’ stars try to guess where their most iconic movies and shows were shot–from the busy roads of Nepal in ‘Doctor Strange’ to the grand palaces of ‘The Favourite’.
00:00I had the most amazing experience with a group of nuns, Buddhist nuns, having...
00:05Sorry. Oh, you're so filthy. I'm sorry, I know, I'm sorry.
00:08Hi, I'm Olivia Colman. And I'm Benedict Cumberbatch.
00:11And we're about to find out who knows their filming locations best.
00:22Yeah, with Doctor Strange.
00:25It's the first film, The Burning Gap in Nepal.
00:28Yeah. Where he goes in search of carmortage.
00:31You're looking for carmortage.
00:37For an extra five points, what year was this?
00:40Oh, Christ. That's mean.
00:422016 or...
00:43Holy shitballs, yes!
00:44Yeah, yeah.
00:44You're good.
00:45I remember that day very well.
00:47It was pretty much the first day we turned over on the film.
00:51And we began our journey of this sort of spiritual character bringing this new dimension to the MCU
00:55in a very spiritual place, which has a very other-dimensional feel.
00:59It was an amazing experience.
01:01And these are steps going down to the burning ghats.
01:04And as we were there, a bit morbid, but, you know, actually, no, it's fine.
01:07Death, life, life, death.
01:09Some people have met their end on a car accident and there were bodies coming in.
01:13So that smoke was real smoke.
01:14Oh, God.
01:15Yeah, but it's part of life's cycle.
01:19It's part of the end of it.
01:20And there were monkeys.
01:21Lots of people.
01:22And then behind there, lots of people started popping up on mobile phones.
01:24The security team were like, oh, you're all right.
01:26We look after, you know, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt.
01:29You are just Benedict.
01:31I was like, okay, no, no, fine.
01:31It's just Sherlock.
01:32No, no, you're fine.
01:33It's just Sherlock.
01:34It's on television.
01:34It goes, yeah, yeah.
01:35You're going to be fine.
01:36And by the day after that, even though I had a big beard and wig on, it was insane.
01:40We couldn't go anywhere.
01:41Oh, no.
01:42It was fun, though.
01:43And what a place, what a people and what an experience.
01:45Lovely place to film.
01:46Lucky me.
01:47I last went to Kathmandu when I was a teenager at a school leaver.
01:51And I went there on a break from teaching in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery and went round Bodhanath Stupa.
01:57We went back there, Chihutu and myself and Adam Ackland.
02:01Yeah.
02:02And had the most amazing experience with nuns, Buddhist nuns.
02:08Sorry.
02:09Oh, you're so filthy.
02:10I'm sorry.
02:10I know.
02:10I'm sorry.
02:11They were in Pugetra, which means prayer.
02:13Not something dirty.
02:14And so they were doing that.
02:15They were having walked around the Bodhanath Stupa three times.
02:18We then at sunset were gifted the opportunity to be with them and meditate and watch them.
02:23It was just, it's a very powerful place to be.
02:26That's amazing.
02:26Yeah.
02:27Okay, your turn.
02:27I think he's going to win this.
02:29Oh.
02:29I do remember that, yes.
02:32Yes.
02:33Yes.
02:33Yes.
02:34Yes.
02:34One of the really gorgeous things about The Crown was you turn up in beautiful houses when
02:39there's no public around.
02:40And you can go, could I have, could you show me around?
02:43And someone will go, yes.
02:44I'll show you.
02:45This is all.
02:46The public can't see all.
02:47You see these paintings.
02:47It was a proper treat.
02:49Wow.
02:49But I think my favourite was our trip to Scotland.
02:52You have to remember the episode number, the season.
02:54Stop it.
02:55And what you're doing.
02:57I'm driving with Gillian Anderson.
03:00She's playing Margaret Thatcher.
03:01Correct.
03:02This was a very old landy and the steering was baggy to say the least.
03:08Wow.
03:08So trying to reverse back up that for the beginning of the shot again.
03:11Such a beautiful place.
03:11Oh my goodness.
03:12Yeah, that would have given me the heebie-jeebies.
03:13It was incredibly beautiful.
03:15And it was on someone's private land and they had three or four locks.
03:19As you do.
03:20But there's a lovely right to roam in Scotland so people could go and camp and experience it.
03:24It's incredibly beautiful.
03:25I think from filming in Scotland, I decided I wanted to film outside all the time.
03:29Did you have a day off?
03:30Our day off, I really want to say that we went for a walk, but we were in the pub.
03:35That's all right.
03:36That's allowed, especially in Scotland.
03:38Ta-da!
03:39Quite regal, Sherlock.
03:42I think series two.
03:45Yeah.
03:46And I think episode two.
03:49No, boo.
03:51Episode one.
03:51Yes.
03:52Anyway, it's me going to meet the queen.
03:54He is.
03:54Because she's got one of the royals into trouble.
03:57A naughty princess has been a bit naughty with the dominatrix and she's got it all on film.
04:03Fantastic.
04:04Yes, that's why I'm summoned to the Palace by Mycroft.
04:05I was in a sheet which he then stepped in because I refused to get dressed.
04:08I don't think I saw that episode.
04:10And he had to say, get dressed.
04:10Do you remember the actual building that you used instead of Buckingham Palace?
04:14Yeah, it was Guildhall.
04:15That's the location, sorry.
04:16Oh, Goldsmiths Hall, it says here.
04:17Similar, though.
04:18Yeah, it was Goldsmiths Hall.
04:20That's impressive, isn't it?
04:21It's really extraordinary.
04:22I like filming outdoors.
04:23I was just craving them to write one in the, you know, the tropics or in some big country house.
04:28Yeah, open on a beach.
04:29Like how the Good The Christie's seem to have, you know, with butlers and stuff.
04:31But it never occurred.
04:33It was more urban and gritty, so we were all over sort of, you know, train depots and weird tunnels that were used as shooting ranges.
04:40St. Bart's Hospital roof, that was pretty cool.
04:42That was pretty cool.
04:43Yeah, I bet not many people have been up there.
04:45No, we all jumped off it.
04:46That was fun.
04:48Didn't see that, did you?
04:49Christ, that was elegant.
04:54Hatfield House!
04:55Yes.
04:55Oh my God, that place is amazing.
04:58I thought it was a different scene when she says something really rude.
05:01It is that one, am I allowed to say?
05:04It's when the Queen says to Lady Sarah,
05:07I like it when she puts her tongue inside me.
05:10I should watch it again.
05:11I will watch it with you.
05:12I will impose myself.
05:13Yes, Hatfield House.
05:13And in there is the golden ceilings.
05:16Is it the golden gallery or something?
05:18A huge room with just gold ceiling.
05:21And because Yorgos didn't want to use any electric lights.
05:25So Robbie Ryan, who was the DOP, had to come up with a way with his lighting guys.
05:31Brilliant.
05:31So it was, we had a tray on a sort of, on wheels.
05:36No.
05:37With a stick and candles.
05:39Are you kidding me?
05:40And so as we were walking down the corridor, they'd try and do that in front of me.
05:43So it was candlestick.
05:44That's insane.
05:45I think we had two or three weeks of rehearsals.
05:46Did you?
05:47Unheard of, isn't it?
05:48Yeah, that's brilliant.
05:48And they were hilarious.
05:49Is that his way?
05:50Yeah.
05:50Because he comes from theatre.
05:52Yes.
05:52And so he would play theatre games.
05:53For example, we'd all hold hands.
05:55All of us.
05:56So all of us were there all the time.
05:58Brilliant.
05:58And go through the whole script of the film.
06:01Brilliant.
06:01So by the time you get there, you finally know it.
06:03You know everybody's story.
06:04He'd say, don't say the words.
06:06Say blah, blah, blah.
06:08And with the intention, you should go blah, blah, blah.
06:10And you'd hold hands, take turns talking.
06:12And then you'd have to do a knot.
06:13So I follow this person under that arm.
06:15And then you end up sort of with your face by someone's bum.
06:18And someone's foot up your nose.
06:20So you end up giggling with no inhibitions.
06:22Oh, brilliant.
06:23And really fun.
06:29Imitation game.
06:31That's Tuppence Middleton being brilliant in her one scene.
06:34I mean, really brilliant.
06:35Holding a pint, which I think I put in her hand when I had a moment of,
06:39I got it and ran off.
06:41As Alan did.
06:42Where I'm going to say Black Sheep Park, but I'm not sure.
06:44It was Black Sheep Park.
06:45Yes.
06:45The scene was that.
06:46It was a moment of.
06:47Turing realises the key to the Enigma code here.
06:49Yes.
06:50And it was thanks to her as a decoder talking about sign-offs in German messages.
06:55That's how they actually cracked it.
06:57They realised that people would be lazy with how you sign off
07:00because everyone has a sort of signature.
07:02Turns out that's the only German you need to know to break Enigma.
07:06It was an amazing thing to actually be on site.
07:08We'd all been there to sort of soak up what it was that they achieved
07:12and look at the actual bomb and Enigma machines, real Enigma machines,
07:15one of which we were loaned on the film itself.
07:19What?
07:20The studio audience doesn't know.
07:21No, I'm joking.
07:22Okay, sorry.
07:22Oh, that is the Tate Modern Fleabag.
07:26I'm really impressed with myself.
07:28It's brilliant.
07:28It's pretty iconic.
07:29I haven't seen the photograph.
07:30Can I see?
07:33Oh, yes.
07:34Do you remember anything about being a Fleabag?
07:35There was the great cock wall.
07:38Yes.
07:39I can't remember what it's called.
07:40Great wall of penis?
07:41Cock.
07:42Based on the great wall of vagina.
07:44Yeah, I don't know why she...
07:45Where's my penis?
07:48Oh, it's on the wall over there.
07:49Second from the left.
07:51Your character was so awful in that.
07:52So awful.
07:53It'd have been really fun to play, I imagine.
07:54Really fun.
07:55Yeah.
07:56Did you end up having too much fun and having to do a lot of it again
07:59because you made each other laugh a lot?
08:02Gosh.
08:03And you've got a lovely, thick neck.
08:05You'd be amazed at how very sensible we both are together.
08:08Time pressure or just work?
08:10No, it didn't want to because Phoebe had written it.
08:13I didn't want to be...
08:14Yeah.
08:14I didn't want to go, I will never put her in anything I write ever again.
08:20Oh, a little horsey.
08:22Central Otago.
08:24Oh, it was in New Zealand.
08:26Yeah, we faked Montana.
08:27Oh.
08:29That's a stuntman being Peter, falling off a horse that we set him off on.
08:33Let him out.
08:34Let him out.
08:34And he goes riding off and falls off after about five minutes.
08:37Yeah.
08:37We'll laugh at him as the cruel menfolk we are.
08:39It was the most astonishing location.
08:42That is amazing.
08:43There was no human interference with the landscape.
08:45We had a Maori blessing at the beginning of the shoot, which was extraordinary.
08:50It was so intoxicating to work there as an environment.
08:52And it was a character in the film.
08:53Yeah, gorgeous.
08:54It really literally was.
08:54The dog was somewhere up there in the mountains.
08:56I went there quite a few times before we started filming, just laying in the grass and kind of
09:00Walt Whitman put my ass into the room.
09:02Wow.
09:02Just feeling the ground and just being one with the earth and trying to find places to swim and just do things with the cattle.
09:10I even wanted to get on the roof and start sort of banging wooden shingles into the fake town we made down the road where they drive the cattle to.
09:16And they went, no.
09:17They didn't let me do that.
09:19How's your Kiwi accent?
09:19How does fantastic.
09:23Been?
09:24Been.
09:24Been?
09:24Have you been in a bin?
09:26It's very confusing.
09:27What does that mean?
09:28Have you been in a bin?
09:28Ben, have you been in a bin?
09:30But it's all, been, have you been in a bin?
09:32Yeah.
09:32Oh, yeah, cool.
09:33This is fun.
09:34It might just be fun for us and nobody else, but I'm really enjoying this.
09:37Ah!
09:38That's the Winking Prawn for the roses.
09:42Where exactly were we?
09:43Sulcombe.
09:44Yes, but what was the name of the beach?
09:48That's really unfair.
09:49Do you, would you know?
09:50North Sands Beach.
09:51Would you have known that?
09:52Well, because we, we swam on South Sands where the hotel was, the Harbour Hotel.
09:55How would you remember that?
09:56We being your husband and you were at work.
09:57Yeah.
09:59I wouldn't remember.
10:00I don't know why I remember shit like that.
10:01But it was lovely.
10:03It was so nice.
10:03And the woman who owns that, the Winking Prawn, was so nice about it.
10:07She was amazing.
10:08About us taking over her pride and joy.
10:09Her lovely restaurant.
10:10Yeah.
10:10And she said, you must come back and I'll cook for you.
10:13We went, oh my God, yes, we haven't done it yet.
10:14That's what we should do.
10:15We should do that.
10:16Do you have a favourite food city in the world?
10:19Favourite food city?
10:20I mean, anywhere in Italy, pretty much.
10:22Rome's pretty damn amazing.
10:24I went to Sri Lanka for a sort of holiday of a lifetime with the family.
10:28Wow.
10:28And that was the best food.
10:31Tokyo is extraordinary if you like your sushi.
10:33Oh, I've never been to Japan.
10:34Can't wait.
10:34One day in my dream.
10:35Oh, so London's got amazing food.
10:38All the food you could.
10:38Go on.
10:39Artuzzi is a little Italian on Bellenden Road.
10:42St. John's.
10:43Are you a head to tail?
10:43Love St. John's.
10:44I also went there for a friend's wedding.
10:46Yes.
10:46Gorgeous food.
10:47Spring around the corner in London.
10:48There's a great restaurant in Somerset House.
10:50Forza Wine on the roof of the National that started in Peckham.
10:53Scully's and Mayfest.
10:54Also, French's fish and chips.
10:55Can I just say, Wells Quay, best.
10:57And my granddad was born in the flat above it.
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