Inside ‘The Gentlemen’ Season 2 Filming Locations, From Badminton House to Italy’s Lake Maggiore

Fans of Guy Ritchie’s Netflix crime hit have been scouring maps ever since the cameras started rolling on the follow up season, and honestly, who could blame them. Filming for the second season of the hit series from Guy Ritchie began in August 2025 and concluded in October 2025, and the finished product looks nothing like a simple retread of the English countryside caper that made the show a breakout success.

Season 2 was filmed in England and Italy, reflecting the larger international scope of Eddie’s criminal business. That geographic leap turns out to be one of the most talked about elements of the new season, giving ‘The Gentlemen‘ a sun soaked makeover that longtime viewers were not necessarily expecting.

‘The Gentlemen’ Season 2 Locations in England

Even with all the Italian glamour, the show never really leaves its roots behind. Halstead Manor’s exterior was again filmed at Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the Grade-I listed historic home of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, which has doubled as the series’ English aristocracy since Season 1. It remains the visual anchor of the entire show, the crumbling aristocratic facade hiding a very unaristocratic secret underneath.

Interior shots were again done at Stoke Court in Stoke Poges, and that historic property continues to stand in for the lavish, slightly musty corridors of the Horniman estate. The estate has served as an interior location representing parts of the Horniman estate and other aristocratic settings in the show, giving the production a consistent throughline even as the story expands elsewhere.

London itself also plays a major role behind the scenes. Most of the production for The Gentlemen Season 2 once again took place in London, which continues to serve as the central hub for Eddie Horniman’s criminal empire. Multiple exterior scenes were reportedly shot across different districts of the city, while interiors were filmed at large studio complexes and historic buildings, keeping that gritty urban underworld feeling intact.

And there is a personal touch too. One of Guy Ritchie’s own properties features in season 2 of ‘The Gentlemen’, in the form of Ashcombe House in Wiltshire, with the manor sitting roughly halfway between the villages of Berwick St John and Tollard Royal near Salisbury, adding a genuinely personal layer to the show’s sprawling estate universe.

‘The Gentlemen’ Season 2 Filming in Italy

The biggest shakeup for season two is obviously the jump across the continent. Filming is in full swing for season 2 of ‘The Gentlemen’, and this season ventured abroad with extensive filming underway in Northern Italy at the iconic Lake Maggiore and Verbania, a lakeside town in the Piedmont region, right on the western shore of the lake. It is a dramatic change of scenery for a show that built its identity on hedgerows and manor houses.

Guy Ritchie has been candid about why the move made sense creatively. Ritchie said this chapter sees a deliberate expansion, both geographically and thematically, as the story journeys from the English countryside to the Italian lakes, with Eddie and Susie navigating an increasingly volatile empire as they are besieged on all fronts by an influx of enigmatic new players. That framing lines up neatly with the plot itself.

Behind the scenes photos only added to the buzz. Set photos from filming on June 18, 2025 captured Theo James cruising across Italy’s Lake Maggiore and sharing screen time with co-star Jasmine Blackborow, with James seen aboard a sleek boat under a hovering drone and interacting with fans between takes. The production blended the show’s signature crime drama aesthetic with a stunning European backdrop, and the majority of the cast made the trip over to Italy, with Kaya Scodelario, Harry Goodwin, and Ruby Sear also spotted on set.

Local officials seemed genuinely thrilled about the attention. Verbania’s mayor Giandomenico Albertella expressed delight, noting that the city and the lake were chosen as filming locations for the new series. It is easy to see why, considering the exposure a global Netflix hit brings to a relatively under the radar corner of Piedmont.

Lake Maggiore Villas and the New Italian Crime Empire

The choice of location was not just about pretty scenery, it directly shapes the plot. Eddie is now comfortable with power and determined to build something much larger, and his ambitions take the operation from the cannabis business beneath Halstead to the lakeside villas of Italy, where he and Susie enter the orbit of ruthless Italian crime boss Marco Moretti and fixer Cico Maldini, whose loyalty is far from certain. That is a significant tonal shift from the muddy fields of season one.

The Woman & Home breakdown of the new setting captures the same idea from a fan perspective. With the new season, the tweed clad characters move their scheming and deals to another country, as Eddie would quite like to be rid of Susie and her father Bobby after they helped sort out the financial mess his brother Freddy got himself into during season one. Now he wants to go solo, and Italy becomes his escape route as much as his opportunity.

It is worth remembering just how central Lake Maggiore became to the shoot. The most prominent international filming location for Season 2 is Lake Maggiore, and the region’s glitzy lakeside towns provide a sharp visual contrast to the damp English aristocracy that defined the first run of episodes.

Familiar Estates Return with a Twist

Long before the Italian trip was ever announced, ‘The Gentlemen’ had already built a reputation for using genuinely impressive real estate. Loseley Park in Guildford, a Tudor house in Surrey that served as the hero location in Ritchie’s 2020 film, was used again in the series to capture some of Halstead Manor’s opulent inner sanctums and scenes in Halstead’s woods, even though the show was mainly filmed at Badminton House.

Other English country houses have also lent their grandeur to the show’s world of criminal aristocracy. Wrotham Park in Hertfordshire was used to represent Bridgewater House, the lavish county pile belonging to American tycoon Stanley Johnston, and the neo-Palladian house has also appeared in ‘The Crown’ and season two of ‘Bridgerton’. It is a reminder that Britain’s stately homes are doing serious double duty across prestige television right now.

Between the returning English estates and the brand new Italian scenery, season two clearly wanted to prove it could grow without losing what made the original so watchable. ‘The Gentlemen’ Season 2 premiered on September 3, exclusively on Netflix, giving audiences the chance to see all of these locations come together on screen for the first time.

With Eddie and Susie’s empire now stretching from a hidden cannabis farm under an English manor all the way to the villas of Lake Maggiore, which setting do you think suits ‘The Gentlemen’ better, the muddy English countryside or the glitzy Italian lakeside.