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• Drayton House had never been used in a film or TV show before "Saltburn."
• Where is the Saltburn estate?
• Ray Chan, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ and ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Art Director, Dies at 56
• Inside Drayton House, the real-life Saltburn country home
• Eminem Announces New Album ‘The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce),’ Releasing This Summer

In general, there’s nothing wrong with movies that remind us of other movies. This is how genres rejuvenate themselves across the decades, building on themes and moods that have come before. But a movie’s tone, maybe even more than its plot, is everything, and that’s where writer-director Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn fails.

Drayton House had never been used in a film or TV show before "Saltburn."

Glass enclosures around the outdoor areas on this level allow unobstructed views. The younger generation of toffs sometimes ironically refer to themselves as “chins”—an abbreviation of the phrase “chinless wonders” which once disparagingly described a class of slightly useless, rich and privileged aristocrats. Their lives and language are documented by the anonymous author of the hilarious publishing hit The Chin Dictionary, an anarchic take on Nancy Mitford’s famous Noblesse Oblige for the 21st century. The extraordinary claim by Rebel Wilson that she was invited to a drug-fueled orgy by a minor royal at an L.A.

Where is the Saltburn estate?

"#saltburn obsession continues with a visit to #draytonhouse in #Northamptonshire," one TikTok user captioned a video of the home's exterior from afar. Even though you can't film your own TikTok video dancing around the home, people have still made the trip to see the exterior and the grounds. For most of those seven centuries, the manor was a silent countryside presence, known mostly to locals or experts with a penchant for viewing beautiful homes owned by England’s upper classes. These included the shared bathroom connecting Felix and Oliver’s rooms, with a bath made especially to accommodate Elordi’s 6ft 5in frame. As for what he thinks of the famously controversial film, Stopford-Sackville said that a few of the more outlandish scenes weren't quite to his taste.

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Drayton House is in Northamptonshire and dates all the way back to 1328. Despite being listed as a grade one house, because it’s privately owned the family allowed the crew to redesign the house to fit the script. "A place as unreal as Saltburn always had to feel real," writer and director Emerald Fennell told Town & Country.

'Saltburn' was filmed at this dreamy estate, which has been in the same family for 250 years - Yahoo News UK

'Saltburn' was filmed at this dreamy estate, which has been in the same family for 250 years.

Posted: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:18:08 GMT [source]

"We flipped them around, painted them, took tapestries down, and put them back up," Davies says. "We turned a bedroom into a bathroom and a bathroom into a dressing room." In the shared bathroom that connects Felix and Oliver’s rooms – and yes, where that scene was filmed – a bath was made especially to accommodate Jacob Elordi’s 6ft 5in frame. In this familiar story, there is always a first-person narrator, sucked into a world beyond their comprehension. A framing narrative where this person looks back on a time that froze their life completely, that left them trapped, forever combing over every detail, trying to make sense of it all.

The center, which features a minotaur sculpture designed by sculptor Nicola Hicks, and its connecting corridors were constructed with potted hedging; the rest is CGI. The maze plays a pivotal role during a climactic party scene, which saw the estate dressed up for a party—and then dressed down for its messy aftermath. The boys’ bedrooms were decorated with realistic, lived-in elements like dirty clothes and used glasses. Many rooms were altered to serve the narrative, including the boys’ bedrooms, which are connected by a bathroom that was installed into an existing bedroom and painted with a glossy red paint.

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For Emerald Fennell's 'Saltburn,' it was go goth or go home - Los Angeles Times

For Emerald Fennell's 'Saltburn,' it was go goth or go home.

Posted: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]

Many of the existing rooms were used in the film, which is set in 2006, as was the square pond, the chapel, and the gardens. The team added topiary and contemporary art and sculptures and brought in furniture from Lots Road Auctions in London. Some of the modern artwork was created by the art department, but the team also got permission to reproduce pieces by Ryan Mosley and Colin Harris, and film artist Jason Line did the portraits of the Catton family that can be seen throughout the house. The mansion featured in Saltburn is called Drayton House and the family who owns the historic house allowed it to be filmed for the first time ever.

It’s a lived-in feeling that feels glamorous and filthy at the same time. The team even discussed the house’s smell, adding fresh flowers to add a sincerity to the environment. The Catton family uses an ornate reading room as their TV room (in real life it is the current owners’ breakfast room). Davies pulled up the carpet, painted the walls and woodwork, added silk panels, and dressed the space with over-the-top, bright contemporary colors.

"I didn't want to be constantly picking up and moving," said Fennell. "Everyone became comfortable in this unimaginably grand place, and you could feel that. That's important too, that it felt like theirs somehow." If after you've watch Saltburn you have a desire to visit the location for yourself, read on to find out where that is and if it's even possible. Reported earlier this month that Bruce A. Bailey, an archivist of the property, rejected a request to visit via email. "We pulled out the bedroom, and I put the tiles on the floor. We put the bathtub there," she said.

Emerald Fennell may have got tongues wagging with her divisive drama Saltburn, but viewers also can’t stop talking about the titular country home where the film’s dramatic action takes place. Sabrina and Barry first sparked romance rumors when they were spotted out together in December. They were also reportedly spotted together at Vanity Fair’s Oscar Party in March. Barry was also reportedly seen watching Sabrina’s set at Coachella’s first weekend, per People. Carpenter and Keoghan have been flirty on Instagram and they've been spotted together at an Oscars party in Beverly Hills, California, but their Coachella gestures is as close as they've ever gotten to all but confirm their romance.

The lots are also deeper and longer than many of those on offer on the other beaches, allowing for guest houses, main houses and land in between. “In this particular case, the lot is about 325 feet long, so there’s this wonderful expanse that provides privacy from people walking on the public beach,” Monus said. Another wild figure of the 1970s and ’80s social scene was Viscount Jamie Blandford. He was the great-grandson of gilded age grande dame Consuelo Vanderbilt, whose loveless marriage to the 9th Duke of Marlborough poured gold into the depleted family coffers. Jamie was jailed multiple times and clocked up over 20 convictions for drug and other offenses. He had such a well-known affection for fast living that his father, the 11th Duke, at one stage took court action to try and bar him from inheriting the family pile.

The elegant bathtub was constructed from modeled fiberglass to fit actor Jacob Elordi’s six-foot-five frame. Sabrina Carpenter gave a cheeky shoutout to her rumored boyfriend Barry Keoghan as she sang the outro to her song “Nonsense” at Coachella on Friday, April 19. The singer, 24, made a reference to the scene in Saltburn where Barry, 31, drinks his co-star’s bathwater during her epic performance on the second weekend of the music festival.

Given its idyllic setting, Broad Beach has long attracted Hollywood A-listers, said Monus. Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy reportedly lived here in the 1960s, and Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw took up residence in the 1970s. According to published reports, recent marquee names include Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Steven Spielberg, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Mel Gibson, Pierce Brosnan and Los Angeles Times owner and biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong. “If the actors have any downtime, they go and sit in the greenroom, whether they’re the lead or they’ve got one line,” the director says. The intimacy with which we were acquainted with these strangers was startling and unprecedented and entirely one-sided. For a long time, these potent imaginary friendships — inevitably descending into self-loathing, jealousy and a sado-masochistic inability to look away — replaced all human contact.