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One Day

FILM · 2011 · UK

One Day

14 archived facts 2 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026

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11 Interesting Facts About One Day

  1. #002

    In Patricia Clarkson's final scene, the lighting in the close-ups grows progressively brighter to signal that the character will soon die.

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  2. #003

    The scene in which Dex and Emma go skinny-dipping was the only scene in the film in which Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess did not wear wigs.

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  3. #004

    At a location in Scotland, Anne Hathaway showed her backside to Jim Sturgess to set the mood for filming the skinny-dipping scene. Although she did so in a position where the crew could not film it, she had not anticipated that several residents of the housing complex behind her were using their mobile phones. Surprisingly, as of August 2011 the footage had not been published online, and Hathaway says she is grateful that the residents had the "class" to refrain from doing so.

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  4. #005

    It was actually raining during the filming of the scene in which Dex and Emma holiday on a French beach. The actors performed in their swimsuits under a tarpaulin.

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  5. #006

    In the scene where Emma and Dexter lie in bed together after bathing naked in a hotel in France, Emma can be seen wearing the same T-shirt reading "Nuclear Disarmament Now" that she wore on the graduation night when she slept with Dexter, four years before the trip to France.

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  6. #007

    The screenplay for this film appeared on the 2010 Black List, a list of the year's "most liked" unproduced screenplays.

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  7. #008

    Dexter's father mentions that Silent Witness (1996) is going to be on television. Ken Stott, who plays Dexter's father, appeared in Silent Witness (1996).

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  8. #010

    This was the second time Anne Hathaway played a character named "Emma." The first was in Bride Wars (2009), alongside Kate Hudson. Coincidentally, "Emma" is a teacher in both films.

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  9. #012

    Phoebe Fox's debut.

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  10. #013

    Heida Reed's debut.

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  11. #014

    Because of the novel's great popularity in the United Kingdom, Anne Hathaway admitted that she initially felt pressure to meet fans' expectations.

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