Layer Cake - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[wesley]

"Layer Cake" author J.J. Connolly designated his protagonist as "XXXX" in his mind until he could think of a suitable name for the character. Ultimately, he decided that the character didn't need a name for the story to be effective.

[ivan]

When Gene gives XXXX a handgun, Producer and Director Matthew Vaughn said on the DVD commentary on that scene that Daniel Craig "wants to be James Bond." Craig would be cast as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006) and his co-star, Ben Whishaw, would appear in future Bond films with Craig.

[kylie]

Marcel Iures plays a Serbian drug dealer (Slavo), yet, being a Romanian actor, he speaks Romanian with his crew.

[bessie]

"Layer Cake" author J.J. Connolly wanted to play Lucky in this movie.

[bessie]

Louis Emerick (Trevor) was originally intended to play Morty, but his Liverpool accent was a barrier.

[ray]

The door into Eddie Temple's library is a façade of books, including Dante Alighieri, on the edge of the door at eye level.

[jesse]

In the penultimate scene at Stoke Park country club, XXXX and his fellow drug dealers are eating a layer cake.

[bernard]

The first draft of the screenplay was four hundred eight pages long. The book on which it was based is three hundred forty-four pages.

[riley]

The "f" word and its derivatives are said two hundred ten times throughout this movie.

[sophie]

The café in which Morty pours out the teapot is a real-life café in London. You can get breakfast there, 17-19 Regency Street, SW12 4BY.

[lonnie]

The phonetics ("radio alphabet") "Delta-Uniform-Kilo-Echo" are spoken in sentence over the police band when the "inspector" exits the police car to address the raid team. The phonetics spell the letters D-U-K-E, or "Duke."

[marc]

The warehouse where XXXX meets Eddie Temple was mostly empty, and most of the crates seen in it were added digitally.

[steve]

The warehouse where XXXX meets Eddie Temple is the largest of its kind in the U.K.

[michele]

Sienna Miller is the only American in the cast.

[aaron]

The actor who played Duke is Jamie Foreman, son of notorious London gang enforcer Freddie Foreman.

[kyle]

"In time of peace, plan for war" is from "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, and is Chinese, not Roman.

[phyllis]

When charming American girls at a bar in this movie, Cody tells Tiptoes that he is pretending to be the Earl of Oxford. Producer and director Matthew Vaughn is a descendant of Edward Harley, third Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, but is not eligible to take that title because it has been discontinued and replaced by the Earl of Oxford and Asquith.

[sophie]

Guy Ritchie was in place to direct, but other commitments meant he had to drop out.

[lonnie]

In the opening montage, XXXX walks through a pharmacy, in which he imagines all of the products are drugs, like cocaine and ecstasy, branded with labels such as "FCUK reality." The founder of French Connection (FCUK), Stephen Marks, was the executive producer of this movie.