![]() "The line at the end, I found reading the diaries in bed one night, 'cause this is what I used to do every night, when Logue says 'You still stammered on the 'W'," Firth said. While the treatments spring from imagination, the actors read Logue's diaries and letters to bring realism to everything else. "And of course, little did I realize that the particular lens they were using on that shot made me look like a Galapagos tortoise." I mean, somebody had told me that the only way to release that muscle," actor Geoffrey Rush said of one of the speech exercises he did in the movie. The scenes are based on Seidler's experience and ideas of the actors. But in truth, Logue didn't record his methods. In the film, the king throws himself into crazy therapies. I have to overcome this stammer, and this is my chance,'" Mark Logue told Pelley. The king saw Lionel Logue every day for an hour, including weekends. And it also described in detail the intensity with the appointments." "It described in detail the king's stammer, which we hadn't seen anywhere else. "Probably the most startling thing was the king's appointment card," Logue told Pelley. And among the hundreds of pages of documents were Logue's first observations of George VI. We met Logue at the same address where his grandfather treated the king. ![]() "It's not the relationship between a doctor and his patient, it's a relationship between friends," Logue said. "As you read through all these letters between your grandfather and the king, what did it tell you about the relationship between these two men?" Pelley asked. 'Yours very sincerely, Albert,'" Logue read from one of the letters. "'My dear Logue, thank you so much for sending me the books for my birthday, which are most acceptable.' That's so British isn't it. When Logue hauled them down for the movie, he discovered more than 100 letters between the therapist and his king. Produced by Ruth Streeter His grandfather's diaries were up in the attic in boxes that the family had nearly forgotten. Mark Logue not only had pictures, he also had some diaries. Researchers for the film tracked down Lionel Logue's grandson Mark, because the movie needed family photos to get the clothing right. Seidler could not have imagined his work would lead to a discovery that would rewrite history. They say you can't make this stuff up, and in much of the film that's true. Geoffrey Rush plays Logue, an unorthodox therapist and a royal pain. "The words that keep coming up when you hear about Lionel Logue are 'charisma' and 'confidence.' He would never say, 'I can fix your stuttering.' He would say, 'You can get a handle on your stuttering. He found the theme of the story in the clash between his royal highness and an Australian commoner who became the king's salvation, an unknown speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Twenty five years later, just shy of her 102nd birthday, she finally left this realm."Īfter the Queen Mother's death in 2002, Seidler went to work. ![]() But, I didn't think I'd have to wait that long," he explained.Īsked why, Seidler said, "Well, she was a very elderly lady. Seidler, please, not during my lifetime the memory of these events is still too painful.' If the Queen Mum says wait to an Englishman, an Englishman waits. "And finally, an answer came and it said, 'Dear Mr. Seidler had grown up with the story, but he didn't want to tell the tale until he had permission from the late king's widow, known as The Queen Mother. And I thought, 'Wow if he can do that, there is hope for me.' So he became my childhood hero," David Seidler, who wrote the movie, told Pelley. But my parents would encourage me to listen to the king's speeches during the war. I didn't rid myself of it until I was 16. I started stuttering just before my third birthday.
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