Odds are you’ve seen Colin Firth’s performance in The King’s Speech, which won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor *and* Best Original Screenplay. But back in 1984, he was the lead in Another Country, a romantic historical drama that included a very royal extra: Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer.
Princess Diana’s Brother Appeared in This ’80s Movie with Colin Firth (and They Shared a NSFW Scene)
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Published Sep 27, 2024
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The Earl shared a photo of Rupert Everett, who starred alongside Firth, to Instagram. “Rupert Everett looking exceptionally dashing in his breakout role in the movie ‘Another Country,’ filmed in Oxford, Northamptonshire and London in 1983,” Spencer captioned the post. “Far left in this photograph sees me as a mere ‘featured extra’ in that film.”
Although Firth isn’t in the photo, Spencer divulges a funny memory they shared years later. “I bumped into Colin Firth, whose first film this also was, when he was promoting ‘The King’s Speech,’ and said: ‘Colin, you won’t remember me, but we took a shower together in Another Country.’ ‘Of course I remember!’ he laughed: ‘You have fantastic buttocks!’”
As if that wasn’t endearing enough, Spencer writes that he replied, “Had, I’m afraid, not have.”
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The movie was partially based on Guy Burgess, a double-agent and spy. It explores his homosexuality and Marxist influence and critiques the English public school system. Although he had no lines, Spencer was an extra in three scenes.
Earlier this year, Spencer shared his traumatic childhood experiences from British boarding school in his memoir, A Very Private School. Before he endured harrowing abuse at Maidwell Hall, he attended a Norfolk school called Silfield, where his older sister Diana was just a few classrooms away.
“I was very excited to be joining the school where my big sister was going,” he said on the Royally Obsessed podcast in March. “Diana was very good to me as a child. Our mother left when I was quite young and Diana stepped in very kindly.”