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Duke | Based On Play Or Musical
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British Supporting Actor of the Year | 2005 | Rupert
Box Office Collection 776,691 USD
Claire Danes and Billy Crudup became a couple after the filming of this movie. Crudup left his long-time girlfriend Mary-Louise Parker for Danes.
Kate Winslet was originally offered the female lead but she pulled out shortly before filming started.
Inspired very loosely by true events, with many characters based on actual personalities from the 17th-century stage. Ned Kynaston did play female roles, but also played male roles before and after women were allowed on stage. He would have been 20 in 1660, when the first woman appeared on stage. Margaret Hughes (Maria) is supposed to have been the first woman to appear in a stage production, aged 30. She did appear as Desdemona in Othello, on 8 December at the theater on Vere Street operated by the King's Company, whose manager was Thomas Killigrew, not Thomas Betterton as the film shows. Betterton was a successful theater manager later, but was only 25 in 1660. Other characters also were not historically the age that they appear to be in the film. For example, Nell Gwynn was only 10 in 1660.
The full title of the stage play behind this movie is Compleat Female Stage Beauty, which was reportedly the advertising poster slogan for Kynaston's female impersonations.
First cinema film of Alice Eve.
"King Charles II: Why shouldn't we have women on stage? After all, the French have been doing it for years. Sir Edward Hyde: Whenever we're about to do something truly horrible, we always say that the French have been doing it for years."
"Maria: Your old tutor did you a great disservice, Mr. Kynaston. He taught you how to speak, and swoon, and toss your head but he never taught you how to suffer like a woman, or love like a woman. He trapped a man in a woman's form and left you there to die! I always hated you as Desdemona. You never fought! You just died, beautifully. No woman would die like that, no matter how much she loved him. A woman would fight!"
