00:00I'm Monsieur de Winter.
00:04What are you doing?
00:05Oh, you'll see.
00:06Army, you posted a picture that said,
00:08press tours are so glamorous in 2020.
00:11Does it feel nice to have some normalcy back and, you know,
00:15launching a film and doing press?
00:16Or is all of this just still so bizarre?
00:19This does not feel normal.
00:20This does not feel like a normal press tour.
00:22It's all just like this kind of weird, tumultuous,
00:25nebulous time in 2020.
00:27We shot Rebecca like a year and a half ago,
00:29so it would have been so nice for us all to be together again.
00:32And also the premieres always feel like such a celebration.
00:35It's so exciting to see the film with an audience.
00:37And so all of that's gone now, which is a real shame.
00:40I have no secrets from you.
00:43All marriages have their secrets.
00:46This film is the perfect blend of being dark and haunting,
00:50but also really romantic and at times even heartbreaking.
00:53What was it about this story that really drew you to this project?
00:56Yeah, probably everything you just said in that question.
00:59My character goes on such a huge journey.
01:02I loved getting in her mind.
01:04I loved living in her anxiety and in her pain and her jealousy
01:08and her obsession and then sort of rising like a phoenix at the end almost.
01:12This is all very new to me.
01:14I'm sure you weren't disappointed, madam, if that's your concern.
01:17Mrs. Danvers is such an intriguing character.
01:20What was it about her that really struck a chord with you?
01:23Well, I think she's so horrible and cruel and angry and vengeful.
01:30That's what drew me to her is the mystery that she is as much as the mystery as Rebecca is.
01:36You know, that's a fascinating character.
01:38You want an actress that's sort of irresistible.
01:41Mrs. Van Hopper.
01:43What was that experience like?
01:44Because you had some of the lighter moments in the film before the tone of the film sort of shifts.
01:49Yes, indeed.
01:50It was a great pleasure.
01:51I'll tell you, I had never played a role like that.
01:55I didn't know that world, you know.
01:57So I was, of course, intimidated as I should have been.
02:00We shot in the south of France, you know, we were in Nice.
02:04We went here and there.
02:06I don't even know where we went half the time because I just like, this is too much.
02:10This is so stunning.
02:11How am I supposed to know anything if you don't tell me?
02:14She's still here.
02:16Can you feel her?
02:18We've seen other adaptations of Rebecca in the past, most famously by Alfred Hitchcock.
02:23Whenever you touched me, I knew you were comparing me with Rebecca.
02:27Did you feel pressure that there would be comparisons between the two?
02:30And how did you make this role your own?
02:32Both are adaptations in their own right of the same source material.
02:36But Hitchcock took his liberties and, you know, we made our own adaptation.
02:39You know, we have a more discerning and a more conscientious and dare I say it, a more woke audience now.
02:48And it's like, they wouldn't stand for the 1940s version.
02:51In fact, I bet if you made most people now watch the original 1940s version, they'd be like, that's kind of bizarre.
02:56And Ben Wheatley really wanted to push the romance at the beginning.
03:00It's a little different from the book.
03:01It's more, I think, pure.
03:03And he really wanted the audience to get on our side and believe in us in order to then, like, pull the rug from under our feet and terrify the life out of everyone and take it to that twisted, psychological, awful place.
03:14Lily, there's a lot of complicated female characters in this story.
03:17How do you think this film speaks to women in today's day and age?
03:20I think there's so much in this movie that is so relevant and will always be so because it's about the, you know, dynamics, power balance between men and women.
03:31What Daphne du Maurier is so clever about is she's very good at describing the frustrations of being born female.
03:40And the frustrations that were around in the 1930s when she wrote the novel are still the same ones as we have today.
03:49Women have for so long been kept down as second class citizens.
04:01It is as old as time.
04:03I just think it speaks to the strength of women and to the obstacles that have been placed in front of them time after time after time.
04:10And this twisted behavior that comes as a result of that.
04:15You can't go on living in that big old house with a ghost.
04:20I don't believe in ghosts.
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