William, Kate movie being shot
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May 31, 2011, Tuesday
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Barely a month after their fairy-tale wedding, a new film depicting the budding romance of Prince William and Kate Middleton is being rushed out for television viewers.
A mixture of fact and fiction, "William & Kate: A Royal Love Story" is expected to be released in August on the Hallmark Channel.
Director Linda Yellen took some time out from filming at MediaPro Studios in Romania to speak with The Associated Press. The American was also producer of CBS's "The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana" in 1982, a film that had a huge audience at the time.
"William & Kate" is more than a romance -- it's also "a psychological story of the memory of the mother, in this case Princess Diana, and her legacy," Yellen said.
The film shows how William "has to choose to live his life with her memory and with the decisions he has to make," including the decision of whom to marry. The couple was married on April 29 in a lavish ceremony at Westminster Abbey watched by millions.
Filming began in early May. Yellen, who met Princess Diana three times, called the movie "a very personal story. In a way, it's my tribute to her as well as a tribute to the young couple."
Yellen, whose father died on the first day of shooting the film, said her loss made her better understand some of the scenes where William communicates with his mother in a spiritual way. She wrote the script in two weeks, after she saw William had given Diana's ring to Middleton. "The whole story came to me in that moment," she said.
British actress Alice St. Clair plays Middleton, while American actor Dan Amboyer plays William. In the film, the two meet by chance when William bumps into Kate who was carrying laundry. Amboyer said his character learns from her about ordinary things such as cooking a meal or doing the laundry.
A mixture of fact and fiction, "William & Kate: A Royal Love Story" is expected to be released in August on the Hallmark Channel.
Director Linda Yellen took some time out from filming at MediaPro Studios in Romania to speak with The Associated Press. The American was also producer of CBS's "The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana" in 1982, a film that had a huge audience at the time.
"William & Kate" is more than a romance -- it's also "a psychological story of the memory of the mother, in this case Princess Diana, and her legacy," Yellen said.
The film shows how William "has to choose to live his life with her memory and with the decisions he has to make," including the decision of whom to marry. The couple was married on April 29 in a lavish ceremony at Westminster Abbey watched by millions.
Filming began in early May. Yellen, who met Princess Diana three times, called the movie "a very personal story. In a way, it's my tribute to her as well as a tribute to the young couple."
Yellen, whose father died on the first day of shooting the film, said her loss made her better understand some of the scenes where William communicates with his mother in a spiritual way. She wrote the script in two weeks, after she saw William had given Diana's ring to Middleton. "The whole story came to me in that moment," she said.
British actress Alice St. Clair plays Middleton, while American actor Dan Amboyer plays William. In the film, the two meet by chance when William bumps into Kate who was carrying laundry. Amboyer said his character learns from her about ordinary things such as cooking a meal or doing the laundry.
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