Trivia for
Shadowlands (1993) More at IMDbPro »

• The "Bird and Baby" pub was actually "The Eagle and Child" pub, where C.S. Lewis was a regular.
  
  
• Nigel Hawthorne, who played the role on stage, was replaced in this film version by Anthony Hopkins because Hawthorne was still almost unknown internationally.
  
  
• Robert Flemyng's last film role
  
  
• The last film of Michael Denison.
  
  
• The last feature film of Norman Bird.
  
  
• The last feature film of Gerald Sim.
  
  
• Michael Denison replaced Peter Barkworth.
  
  
• Richard Attenborough replaced Sydney Pollack as director. When he came on board, he had Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger in mind to play the lead roles.
  
  
• Barbra Streisand was asked to direct and star, but declined so she could pursue The Normal Heart (which never got made).
  
  
• Graham Sinclair (uncredited) is the voice of the taxi driver in the country.
  
  
• In one of the scenes in which Douglas Gresham is reading in bed, you can see he is reading The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien was a good friend and colleague of C.S. Lewis.
  
  
• Douglas Gresham became the heir to C.S. Lewis's literary estates, and is one of the producers of the film series The Chronicles of Narnia.
  
  
• Anthony Hopkins prefers to memorize lines on his own, while Debra Winger prefers extensive on-set rehearsals. To accommodate Winger, Richard Attenborough would rehearse with her, reading Hopkins's lines.
  
  
• Joy Gresham's husband was William Lindsay Gresham, an author whose best known work was made into a film with Tyrone Power, Nightmare Alley (1947).
  
  

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