Perhaps the biggest challenge for the designers behind Rebecca — Netflix's adaptation of the classic 1938 novel (which became an Oscar-winning 1940 film) — was finding one house that could fill the role of Manderley, the estate of Armie Hammer's aristocratic character, Maxim de Winter, and where his second wife (played by Lily James) comes to live. "Manderley is such a massive character," says BAFTA Award-winning production designer Sarah Greenwood, who in the end decided that she "could not find everything in one house" and instead relied on a combination of eight English country houses with the right mix of rooms that fit each of the characters.
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