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# Ben Kinglsey Sightings As He Films ‘Learning To Drive’ In Park Slope
- URL: https://bklyner.com/ben-kinglsey-sightings-as-he-films-learning-to-drive-in-park-slope-parkslopestoop/
- Published: 2013-08-20T19:47:41.000Z
- Updated: 2013-08-20T19:47:41.000Z
- Author: Mary Bakija
- Tags: Ben Kingsley, film shoot, Learning to Drive, Patricia Clarkson, #API-Imported

![Filming: Learning to Drive](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/pss_filmshoot_ltd-600x450.jpg)

For the past week, crews have been around the area filming [Learning to Drive](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3062976/?ref=bklyner.com), a movie about, well, driving lessons (and then some). Directed by [Isabel Coixet](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170043/?ref%5F=tt%5Fov%5Fdr&ref=bklyner.com), it stars [Ben Kingsley](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001426/?ref%5F=tt%5Fov%5Fst&ref=bklyner.com) and [Patricia Clarkson](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165101/?ref%5F=tt%5Fov%5Fst&ref=bklyner.com), which screenwriter Sarah Kernochan is clearly excited about:

> 1st day of shooting LEARNING TO DRIVE – Action! – OMG! [#BenKingsley](https://twitter.com/hashtag/BenKingsley?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=bklyner.com) and [#Patricia](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Patricia?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=bklyner.com) Clarkson are speaking my lines!! [#luckyme](https://twitter.com/hashtag/luckyme?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=bklyner.com)
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> — Sarah Kernochan (@SarahKernochan) [August 14, 2013](https://twitter.com/SarahKernochan/status/367662744763240448?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=bklyner.com)

![Learning to Drive film shoot on Park Place](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/pss_filmshoot_ltd_2-600x450.jpg)

They were set up on Park Place between 6th and 7th Avenues yesterday afternoon, and though we didn’t spot either of the two main leads, we’re pretty sure we saw [Jake Webber](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0916617/?ref%5F=tt%5Fov%5Fst&ref=bklyner.com) working with a very young female actress.

![Learning to Drive film shoot on Park Place](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/pss_filmshoot_ltd_3-600x450.jpg)

A neighbor on the block mentioned she’d seen Kinglsey a couple times, but that we probably wouldn’t recognize him if we saw him. In the film, which is due out in 2014, he plays a Sikh driving instructor (who, in [the story from which this was adapted](http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Drive-Other-Stories-ebook/dp/B001FA0K2W?ref=bklyner.com), was Filipino) teaching Clarkson, a middle-aged woman who at 50 is only just getting behind the wheel. Apparently, he’s not *too* hard to notice, though:

> Spotted: Ben Kingsley. Finally see him this morning on the second week of filming Learning to Drive in [#ParkSlope](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ParkSlope?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=bklyner.com)
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> — Kaydee Bridges (@kaydeebird) [August 20, 2013](https://twitter.com/kaydeebird/status/369797788579930112?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=bklyner.com)

Anyone else have a sighting?