Orlando Bloom made his first on-screen appearance in this film with a brief role as a rent boy. The film premiered at the 1997 Venice Film Festival and was the opening night selection at the 1998 San Francisco International Film Festival. Scenes were filmed at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire Lulworth Cove, Studland Bay, and Swanage Pier in Dorset Houghton Lodge in Hampshire Luton Hoo in Bedfordshire Magdalen College in Oxford Lincoln's Inn in Holborn and Somerset House in the Strand. He says Jude Law, Michael Sheen and Ioan Gruffudd were quick to put him at ease. In the DVD commentary, Fry, who is gay, admitted he was nervous about the love scenes with his heterosexual co-stars. Everyone agreed he was physically perfect for the part and more than capable of carrying it off, but the fact he was not a major presence in films made it difficult for them to obtain financing for the project. In a featurette on the film's DVD release, producer Marc Samuelson confesses casting Stephen Fry in the title role was both a blessing and a problem.
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