Jamie Portman with 'The King's Speech' screenwriter David Seidler about his stutter:
The enemy U-boats closed in. One vessel, with Italian prisoners of war locked in the holds, sank. The other two ships survived a terrifying attack. The experience traumatized young David who wasn’t even three yet but was already disoriented by upheavals in his life.
He emerged from the U-boat assault with a terrible stutter. It continued to torment him until he was 16. So it’s no surprise that he feels a powerful rapport with King George VI, whose battle against a debilitating stutter he chronicles in The King’s Speech, a movie that has emerged as a potent Oscar contender.
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