The film marks the first appearance of Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson in a theatrical release in over 30 years, having last appeared in O Filho da Tempestade (1989), as well as the penultimate film role of her lifetime.
Before signing on to direct, Eva Husson had found the book profoundly moving, she said. "I first read it at the novel stage, and I remember I read it very, very quickly in one sitting. I closed it and I literally burst into tears for 20 minutes without any specific reason, but it just cracked something open and made me feel some sort of frequency."
The book which Donald gives to Jane on their first dinner together is Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own." In this essay, Woolf uses metaphors to explore social injustices and comments on women's lack of free expression.
Olivia Colman and Josh O'Connor previously starred as Queen Elizabeth II and her son, Prince Charles, in the acclaimed series The Crown (2016).
When it came to casting, director Eva Husson viewed O Reino de Deus (2017), starring Josh O'Connor, and decided, "This is him. I didn't want to make him a character that was too delicate, and I like that balance in Josh, where he's like an open landscape. He knows how to be unreadable, and that's an incredibly cinematic quality."