Paddington has an official passport. The makers of the new Paddington film Paddington in Peru revealed this in passing to the Radio Times today.
They needed the passport for scenes in the new movie, presumably showing Paddington clearing customs on his journey back to darkest Peru. So they approached the Home Office for a facsimile, which is odd in itself, given that any decent prop hand on a film set can rustle one up for you – one that will fool a camera, anyway – in half an hour.
The issues around immigration are often reduced to the level of a CGI bear – because this is the level at which many of the country’s ‘nice’ centrist middle-class people operate
‘We wrote to the Home Office,’ revealed producer Rob Silva, ‘asking if we could get a replica, and they actually issued Paddington with an official passport – there’s only one of these … you wouldn’t think the Home Office would have a sense of humour, but under official observations, they’ve just listed him as Bear.
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