Fifteen Love director divulges ‘technical challenges’ during filming

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WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Fifteen Love. 

Fifteen Love is the gripping drama tennis starring Poldark’s Aidan Turner but where was the show filmed?

The six-episode series takes Amazon Prime Video subscribers into the scandal behind the glamorous world of tennis and while the plot is fictional, it is rooted in an unfortunate reality for some.

Tennis player Justine Pearce’s (played by Ella Lily Hyland) career abruptly comes to an end due to a serious wrist injury.

To make matters worse, her coach Glen Lapthorn (Aidan Turner) went off to America with another player who succeeded in winning a championship five years on.

But as Justine and Glen’s paths cross once again, allegations are made into what really happened between them during their training.

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Where was Fifteen Love on Amazon Prime Video filmed? 

Fifteen Love is shot in various locations in the UK with the fictional Longwood Academy the background for many scenes throughout the drama.

This is where Justine is working following her tennis playing career coming to an end and where she meets with Glen again.

In real life, Longwood Academy is actually Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Hertfordshire.

To make the stunning location fit for purpose, it has been reported seven grass courts had to be created for filming.

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Speaking at the premiere of Fifteen Love, director Toby MacDonald opened up about some of the other key locations and difficulties that came with filming.

“Lots of technical challenges…we were helped, finding locations was really difficult, we needed the scale”, he told Express.co.uk and other media.

“There are very few clay courts in this country and we actually filmed the French Open in Edinburgh where there is a clay court at Craiglockhart’s university [Edinburgh Napier University] and through the LTA (Lawn Tennis Association) means we got recommended and got into Eastbourne, so all of our later grass court [scenes] grand slams are done at Eastbourne.

“So those are big treks for our production to do and even when we were there, obviously they don’t look like the thing they’ve got to look like.”

He continued: “Huge amounts of conversations with the really brilliant CGI company, the effects company, and all the co-ordination that our advisors had done.

“One of the things Naomi [Cavaday] said which I thought was great is it’s not about the place, it’s not just how they play tennis, it’s what they do when they sit down, so what they do when they’re not playing tennis.”

Alongside Turner and Hyland, Fifteen Love stars Manon Azem, Jessica Darrow and Harmony Rose Bremner.

Fifteen Love is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video.

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