10 Hidden Details You Completely Missed In Outstanding Biopics

Tom Hooper's The King's Speech (2010) is a movie which focuses on the future King George VI's (Colin Firth) debilitating stammer and his relationship with Australian-born vocal therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush).

One particularly brilliant moment between the contrasting pair goes down when 'Bertie' attempts to smoke a cigarette in the presence of his new speech coach. Quickly cutting down the future King of England, Logue explains that he believes "sucking smoke into your lungs will kill you". 'Bertie' then reveals that he's been told by physicians that the act relaxes the throat, to which Logue responds by labelling them all 'idiots'.

At a glance, this witty back and forth may just seem like a way of establishing the conflicting personalities and opinions of the film's two most important characters. It definitely is that, but it's also a clever way of foreshadowing the eventual fate of King George VI.

Though he would successfully deliver speeches throughout the second World War with Logue by his side, the King would eventually develop lung cancer due to his fondness for smoking. He then eventually had a lung removed, but he never fully recovered from the surgery and was left in a weakened state from that moment on. King George VI died of a coronary thrombosis in 1952.