Stories from the set

English writer and screenwriter Michael Bond (1926-2017), the creator of Paddington Bear, died six months before the film was released.

The address where the world's politest bear lives — Windsor Gardens, 32 in Notting Hill — does not actually exist. The writer Michael Bond invented it by "mixing" his parents' address on Winser Drive with his own — Arundel Gardens.

After completing underwater filming for Guillermo del Toro's 2017 science fiction drama The Shape of Water, Sally Hawkins (who played Mary Brown in Paul King's film) flew from Toronto, Canada to London for filming, where she learned that she would also have underwater scenes there.

A pop-up book for the film was released in a limited collector's edition; it contained six "pop-up" scenes shown in the film.