Hi, I'm Armie Hammer,
and I'm gonna take you through a scene
in Rebecca, shot by shot.
Don't you think that's how it should be now
that we're married?
Oh, all marriages have their secrets.
So this is happening
as the new Mrs. de Winter is really kind of just getting to,
and settling into Manderley.
She's still very new
and she doesn't feel comfortable in this place yet,
and now we see why.
Goodnight darling.
Yeah, there goes Maxim being a terrible communicator again.
I swear to God, this movie would be so short
if he actually just knew how to communicate
in any sort of like, emotionally mature or responsible way
instead of just being like, "Yeah, okay, g'night."
Ben's direction for these kinds
of scenes are normally pretty simple.
He'll normally just be like,
"Right, yeah, that was pretty good.
Let's do another one."
And you go, "Okay, anything different?"
"No, no, no.
I mean, if you feel like doing something different,
do something different.
If not, you're okay."
"Okay." So then you do it and he goes,
"Yeah, yeah, that was pretty good.
Let's do something totally different.
Why don't we do this?"
And then you'll do that, and then he'll go,
"Okay, let's go back to the first way.
Yeah, you know what?
We got it, we're good."
And yeah, pretty straightforward.
That's also one of the few times
you actually see any physical manifestation of Rebecca.
So this one is Hatfield House, I think.
I'm pretty sure it's Hatfield House which is in,
if you can believe it, Hatfield.
It's not the only house we used for Manderley.
We used about eight or so houses,
and we used different pieces of different houses,
whatever was the best of each house we used,
so that Maxim's house really could be
the most impressive house in the UK.
I do remember that I was barefoot.
My feet were really cold when we were filming this.
Those stone floors, and just huge cavernous rooms.
Maxim?
I just remember thinking, we have heaters,
and we have all that stuff on set.
What did people do in these houses before there was HVAC?
You probably just had to build little fires
all over the house.
It's a really interesting thing trying to act like
you're sleepwalking, 'cause you have to pretend like
you're not looking where you're going,
but also you have to not trip over something.
Leave him.
It's dangerous to wake a sleepwalker.
I love that one brief shot of Kristin Scott Thomas
where it's just that light across her eyes.
And she has such masterful agency.
She's just so put together.
When she acts,
I mean, it's amazing to watch her do her work.
That little thing that I walk into seems like
it's supposed to be a hallway for a big room,
but it was really just a door open and it was just the end.
So I just had to walk in
and then kind of tuck myself down in there
so no one could see me.
So, there's a hallway just over beyond that fireplace
and I'm not up to date with all of my English royalty,
but the Queen, her coronation chair is in the hallway
of that house.
So I remember right before a take,
I was just trying to like,
"Okay, you're sleepwalking, sleepwalking..."
So I just sat on the chair for a second,
and was like, "Okay, okay, okay."
And then I got up and I did the scene and we came back
and there was one of the stewards
from the thing that was like,
"No one sat in this chair, right?"
And I was like, "I don't think anyone sat in the chair."
And she was like, "Okay, 'cause this chair is very old
and was used by royalty as a coronation-"
And broke down the whole history of the chair
and I was like, "Okay, I'll be sure to tell everyone
not to sit in the chair."
And she walked away and I was just like, "What did I do?
What did I do?"
What I'm thinking, as Armie,
when I'm doing this is really just, trying to stay focused
and being open to flowing with whatever comes my way.
I don't remember getting to the end of the hallway
and having an epiphany like,
"I just learned so much about acting."
That scene for me was really just Ben going,
"Just walk down the hallway
but make sure you walk in the middle of the hallway
'cause the camera needs to get you in the right angle."
I go, "Okay, cool."