Manderley Menabilly, was influential in her descriptions of the setting, though a much smaller house. Several years after writing the novel, she leased the manor (1945–1967) from the Rashleigh family, who have owned it since the 16th century. Like Menabilly, Manderley could not be seen from the road. Manderley Manderley is the fictional estate of the character Maxim de Winter, and it plays a central part in Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel, "Rebecca", and in the film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock. Located in southern England (often said to be Cornwall as this was where the author lived and was explicitly stated
Bedelia Du Maurier character a disservice if we just made her a drug-induced pawn of Hannibal Lecter's plot." In another interview, he said that portraying Du Maurier as being in thrall to Lecter "would dishonour both the character and the actress [and] that's not how Gillian has been playing Bedelia." Vincenzo Natali, who directed four episodes of the third season, shared his perspective on the relationship between Du Maurier and Lecter: "From Bedelia's side, she's approaching it a little bit like a scientist – she's very much there to observe Hannibal in his natural habitat. And for Hannibal's part, I mean, I think