The film marks the first appearance of Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson in a theatrical release in over 30 years, having last appeared in Le roi du vent (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."
Olivia Colman and Josh O'Connor previously starred as Queen Elizabeth II and her son, Prince Charles, in the acclaimed series The Crown (2016).
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.
The house in West Horsley Place used for the location filming is the same as that used throughout the comedy series Ghosts (2019), My Cousin Rachel (2017), Cuckoo (2012), and The Crown (2016).