Director Fleur Fortune and production designer Jan Houllevigue intentionally used minimal wood furniture and wood accents as part of the set because there are no forests left in this timeline. Instead everything was made of concrete and stained glass and purposefully given a "70s retro feel" to make it feel more relatable to audiences, versus the obvious sci-fi look - white, minimal, clinical - which would have come off as too futuristic.
Alicia Vikander was four months pregnant by the end of filming and said she had "a quite profound emotional balance to how I portrayed that character due to that."
The greenhouse was a real set built in Tenerife, complete with real plants and a working irrigation system.
Exterior was filmed in Tenerife Spain
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