{"id":10653,"date":"2025-09-13T07:39:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=10653"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:42:42","slug":"looking-for-the-hollywood-magic-then-finding-myth-making-in-notting-hill-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/looking-for-the-hollywood-magic-then-finding-myth-making-in-notting-hill-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for the Hollywood magic (then finding myth making) in Notting Hill in London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Not everything we see onscreen is real. We know <em>naman<\/em>\u2026 and yet <em>nauuto pa rin tayo<\/em>, we still fall victims. And so this needs to be stressed, particularly in the post-truth age, when packaged contents exist to just to push ideals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Itong kuda, galing sa<\/em> Notting Hill, a district of West London, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was also the venue of the Hollywood film of the same name, starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story of the romcom was simple: a Briton who lives in Notting Hill met a movie star in a book shop, HIS book shop, somewhere in Notting Hill. <em>Oo<\/em>, they ended up together, sorry to those who have yet to watch the film; but \u2013 here\u2019s the catch \u2013 THAT book shop shown in the film isn\u2019t what it is in real life. This is where the <em>budol<\/em> is.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@outragemag\/video\/7549163456671321352\" data-video-id=\"7549163456671321352\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\" >\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@outragemag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@outragemag?refer=embed\">@outragemag<\/a> In <a title=\"nottinghill\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/nottinghill?refer=embed\">#NottingHill<\/a> in <a title=\"london\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/london?refer=embed\">#London<\/a>, this <a title=\"bookstore\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/bookstore?refer=embed\">#bookstore<\/a> highlights <a title=\"hollywood\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/hollywood?refer=embed\">#Hollywood<\/a> myth-making (thanks <a title=\"juliaroberts\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/juliaroberts?refer=embed\">#JuliaRoberts<\/a> and <a title=\"hughgrant\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/hughgrant?refer=embed\">#HughGrant<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound  - Outrage Magazine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-Outrage-Magazine-7549163529492761360?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound  &#8211; Outrage Magazine<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The front of the shop seen in the film is located at 142 Portobello Road in Notting Hill in London. Inside, though, it\u2019s NOT a bookshop; instead, it\u2019s a <em>pasalubong<\/em> center, a souvenir shop, selling mostly \u201cMade in China\u201d goods bearing marks related to \u201cNotting Hill\u201d the movie, Harry Potter, or UK. That this place is tacky inside is an understatement\u2026 sorry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Notting-Hill1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"10656\" src=\"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Notting-Hill1-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Notting-Hill1-614x1024.jpg 614w, https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Notting-Hill1-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Notting-Hill1-768x1280.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Notting-Hill1.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 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height=\"1024\" data-id=\"10667\" src=\"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Notting-Hill9-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Notting-Hill9-614x1024.jpg 614w, https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Notting-Hill9-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Notting-Hill9-768x1280.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Notting-Hill9.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Notting-Hill10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"10662\" src=\"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Notting-Hill10-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10662\" 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768w, https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Notting-Hill12.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inside of the book shop in the movie was inspired by the Notting Hill Bookshop, which is located at 13 Blenheim Crescent, also in Notting Hill. Established in 1979, this one\u2019s a real book shop. But because of the Hollywood connection, this is also a tourist trap \u2013 e.g. inside, there are more tourists than there are buyers of whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s movie magic for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And truth creation, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only to be \u201ccorrected\u201d by experience when you\u2019re already in the actual place yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is why we continue discovering\u2026 as we do in this LGBTQIA+ <em>rampa<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for the setting of a Hollywood film in Notting Hill, London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[110,1742,1077],"class_list":["post-10653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destinations","category-travel","tag-travel-2","tag-travel-adventure","tag-travel-destination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10669,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653\/revisions\/10669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}