, set in a luxury brutalist tower block, have all marked the director as an auteur with a diverse but always-disturbing style and a penchant for the contours of both the British landscape and its society, urban and rural.marks a cornerstone for James – not only for her CV, which brims with bright and bubbly heroines, but emotionally, too. “I found it really hard to let the second Mrs de Winter go,” she says. “God, the inner workings of her mind. She’s in such conflict, such turmoil.
“It’s funny because I wasn’t always the English rose, I didn’t play those roles at drama school, or in my first theatre job. Over time, I’ve sort of morphed into a version of myself that I’ve been cast as” – Lily James “I do like living in my pain. I don’t mind spiralling because sometimes it helps me feel more ‘me’. At least if you’re connected to your grief or your pain, something feels real. Real and more potent” – Lily James