On Friday last week I took a wander outside the office mid-morning to replenish the onefinestay milk supply (for the third time in two days...our milk consumption has rocketed in recent days as the team rapidly expands, and we started providing free cereals for the morning munchies). Turning the corner off Bowling Green Lane I was greeted by lines and lines of film trailers and double decker buses. I quickly discovered that this temporary trailer park was in fact nothing less than a major motion picture film set on the move!

Highly excited by the prospect of seeing a celeb in the flesh I skipped back to the office to let everyone know that Meryl Streep was outside shooting scenes for “The Iron Lady”, the new biopic about Maggie Thatcher. I even snuck a peak into her wardrobe trailer, which was decked out wall to wall with the somewhat dowdy skirt suits which Maggie was so famous for. Poor Meryl.

I have to admit that looking at promotional shots for the movie, Meryl does in fact bear an uncanny resemblance to the great Iron Lady herself, and am interested to see the film later in the year.

Spot the difference...

It actually got me thinking about the amount of filming that takes place across London. Barely a day passes that I don’t walk past a camera filming something or someone (although rarely on this scale). After all, every street in London has its own story to tell and I often forget how lucky I am to live in a city so full of incredible architecture and history.

It was on this note that a fellow onefinestayer pointed out that one of onefinestay’s apartment buildings actually features prominently in Woody Allen’s 2005 movie Matchpoint. Parliament View, a striking modern curved glass building overlooking Westminster, is where Chris and Chloe find their first home in the movie. Check out the film promotional trailer for some great shots of this building and across London: 

So for anyone fancying a little taste of the movie-star life for themselves, why not check out our very own onefinestay home at Parliament View:

http://www.onefinestay.com/home/parliament-view/