<P> Future Home Secretary and MP Amber Rudd was given the credit of "Aristocracy Coordinator" after she arranged for several aristocrats to make uncredited appearances as wedding extras, including the then - Earl of Burlington, Peregrine Cavendish and the Earl of Woolton . </P> <P> To make Grant look more nerdy, the producers styled him with shaggy hair, glasses, and deliberately unflattering, ill - fitting clothes . Grant was encouraged by director Mike Newell to mess up and trip over his lines, written in "convoluted syntax" as Grant describes them, in order to give Charles a stammering, nervous quality . Grant, who struggled with hay fever throughout filming, was unsure of Newell's direction and his own performance, which he thought was "atrocious"; on Newell he commented that: "He seemed to be giving direction against what I thought were the natural beats of the comedy . He was making a film with texture, grounding it, playing the truths rather than the gags ." </P> <P> The film was shot mainly in London and the Home Counties, including Hampstead, Islington where the final moments take place on Highbury Terrace, Greenwich Hospital, Betchworth in Surrey, Amersham in Buckinghamshire, St Bartholomew - the - Great (wedding number four) and West Thurrock in Essex . Exterior shots of guests arriving for the funeral were filmed in Thurrock, Essex overlooking the River Thames with the backdrop of the Dartford River Crossing and at stately homes in Bedfordshire (Luton Hoo for wedding two's reception) and Hampshire . </P> <P> According to Hugh Grant, the initial screening of a rough - cut of Four Weddings went very badly . </P>

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