The grand entryway features a spooky tree filled with taxidermy birds (loved by Georgians and Victorians alike) as well as dried-out floral garlands left over from Miss Havisham’s wedding ceremony. Shirburn Castle-a fairytale Grade I–listed property in Oxfordshire-set the scene for the estate’s brewery and some of the grander interior shots. Myles Place in Salisbury, England-a building that dates precisely to that period-fit the bill. Based on her research, Klaus inferred that Miss Havisham’s estate would have been built between 17. This Great Expectations was filmed both on location and on a soundstage. The results are as psychological as they are cinematic. “You have to link that with what’s going on in the house.” “Can you imagine how hideous it must have been?” Klaus, the set designer, says of Miss Havisham’s wedding day disaster, especially in the context of upper-crust English society. Years later-still donning her tattered bridal finery-and watching as rodents peck away at her moldering wedding cake-Miss Havisham has been transformed (as Dickens describes rather unkindly) into “the witch of the place.” Miya Mizuno/FXĭickens left some narrative threads for Klaus and her team to riff on creatively, namely, that Miss Havisham’s father was a wealthy brewer and that she was defrauded and jilted at the altar on her wedding day. Miss Havisham (Colman) and her adopted daughter, Estella (Shalom Brune-Franklin), in their deteriorating mansion.
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