Restoration House in Rochester was the setting for Satis House in Great Expectations, where Miss Havisham lived.

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Scripted by One Day author David Nicholls, the film features Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham and Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch.

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Bonham Carter said that despite her reservations about being too young to play bitter spinster Miss Havisham, Newell had persuaded her she was ideal.

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He also said the film would give a glimpse of Miss Havisham's wedding, an event that has not been seen in previous movie versions.

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Helena Bonham Carter has admitted she initially had doubts about taking on the role of Miss Havisham in the new film version of Great Expectations.

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The film, directed by Mike Newell, is currently being shot in the UK and stars Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham and Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch.

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Miss Havisham was an obvious reference point for designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig of the label Marchesa, a favorite on the red carpet (Chapman is married to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein).

FORBES: Miss Havisham: Fashion's Latest Muse

Jilted by the man she loved at the altar, Miss Havisham retreats from the world, exiling herself to her old, decaying mansion, never taking off her disintegrating, yellowing bridal gown and plotting her revenge on the male sex by molding her adopted daughter into a cruel man-eater.

FORBES: Miss Havisham: Fashion's Latest Muse