'My character has this whole idea of Rebecca, but the truth is entirely different.'
) meet an unnamed young woman in Monte Carlo who helps bring him back to life. Following a whirlwind romance, they marry and the de Winters soon return to Manderley, the estate Maxim once shared with his late wife Rebecca., who stars as the new Mrs. de Winter, sees it all through an especially modern lens."We were talking a lot about howis a very modern tale, because it reflects, in a way, the world of social media," she explains to ET.
"My character has this whole idea of Rebecca, but the truth is entirely different. And often in social media, that's the case. You present this world that's very, very far from the truth," she says."It's about, like, appearance versus reality and how they can be so, so far apart."-- one of the big twist of both du Maurier's novel and their film. On the off chance that you haven't heard this story before, consider this a spoiler warning.
"I guess it doesn't go so well for my character," James says."Although having said that, I think through her experience meeting this man and through their relationship she finds herself. And actually, even though it's so twisted -- the journey that they go on -- I think that they love each other. I think they rescue each other. But it's just in a very morally tricky setting, especially once she finds out that he murdered his wife.
Haunted by the memory of Rebecca, the second Mrs. de Winter eventually discovers Maxim killed his first wife and did away with her body. Which is to say, it may have behooved her to ask a few more questions before agreeing to marry him. Like,"'Have you murdered any of your wives?'" James laughs."That was the second question," James continues.
"I think this is a cautionary tale for what might happen if you do just throw yourselves into [a relationship]," Hammer concludes."You might end up with someone who murdered his spouse. Or you might end up with the greatest thing in the entire world! But I guess you don't really know if you don't roll the dice."
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