Even Keira Knightley was left ‘unsettled’ by her new Netflix thriller

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‘It did feel like some sort of superpower. I can see writers getting addicted to this. I’d never been on a cruise when I wrote the book, let alone a luxury yacht and the boat in the film is so close to how I imagined it. 

‘The experience has been beyond my wildest dreams and exceeded my expectations in every way.’ 

However, when watching the final cut for the first time, she was caught off guard. 

‘I found the movie surprisingly scary even though I knew what was going to happen the whole time!’ she laughed.  

With Simon keen to make the setting feel ‘claustrophobic and suffocating despite the grandeur’, the decision was made to film on an actual superyacht – called the Savannah. 

Valued at a staggering $150million (£111million), there were strict measures in place while filming, with the crew even restricted in what equipment they could bring on board, presenting them with plenty of obstacles. 

‘We weren’t allowed lighting stands or dollies. So, there was literally no equipment,’ Simon laughed.  

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‘So how do you shoot a film without equipment? We literally had magnets to hang lights off bits of the walls.’ 

Meanwhile Keira recalled how even the cast ‘weren’t allowed to wear shoes, touch the walls, the floors or the carpets’. 

‘And we weren’t allowed to touch or sit on the furniture. If it was in a scene, you were allowed to sit on it, but when we would cut, they’d have to get off. Then people would rush up and start fluffing the carpet.’  

Their sentiments were echoed by Guy Pearce and David Ajala – who play the yacht’s owner Richard Bullmer and photographer Ben, who is also Lo’s former flame. 

‘We were filming on a luxurious yacht, but it felt anything but luxurious as we weren’t allowed to sit on the couches, walk on the carpets or lean against the walls. The real crew of the ship were our crew, and we had the film crew and so they were anxious by having like 85 people on the boat, where there should only be about 12,’ Guy said. 

‘So being on the boat was actually a difficult experience and we would go outside to get air, and it was freezing. Look first world problems, but it was far more difficult on the boat than it appears.’ 

The movie also stars Hannah Waddingham and David Morrissey (Picture: Parisa Taghizadeh/ Netflix)

For David, dealing with the obstacles of filming in the English Channel gave him intense cabin fever mixed with stomach-churning motion sickness. 

‘I thought it was all going to be a green screen and was then told we’d actually be filming on a yacht,’ he said. 

‘I was impressed how well I dealt with my motion sickness, and I purposely didn’t tell anyone when I had it,’ he laughed. 

The Woman in Cabin 10 also stars Art Malik, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kaya Scodelario, David Morrissey, Daniel Ings and Hannah Waddingham. 

The Woman in Cabin 10 is now streaming on Netflix.  

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