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Hugh Grant and Reese Witherspoon were the first candidates to play the male and female protagonists.
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Ian Joseph Somerhalder was the first person to play Jack, and he was later taken by the director.
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In the script, Peter drove a rare Porsche 356, and the producer in the film had to replace it with a Speedster356 copied by the British Chesil factory .
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Many scenes in the film were shot on-site, especially the scenes in several games were shot at the Wimbledon Tennis Open in 2003. The crew entered the venue during the intermission of each official game. This is the Wimbledon Open. It is the only time in history that a film crew is allowed to enter the venue for shooting, and all the audience watching the shooting game on the sidelines are net fans.
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Shooting started in July 2003 and took 15 weeks in total. Among them, I shot 7 weeks at Wimbledon Stadium, mainly on the center court, No. 2 and No. 3 courts, and also shot some shots at No. 6, 7 and 8.
Wimbledon behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Edward Colt: Remember I always told you that tennis was a gentleman's game?
Peter Colt: Yeah.
Edward Colt: Total bollocks. Everything I ever told you. Total bollocks.
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Peter Colt: [voice over] So, this is it. This is the end. This is what it looks like. 1,000 balls a day, 300 days a year, for 25 years. Six million balls! And it all ends here. At two in the afternoon on Court 17, while they're over on centre court screaming for the latest Russian teenage beauty.