'I Think Filming A Movie On A Yacht Sounds Delightful': Keira Knightley Got Real About What It's Really Like

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The latest of the upcoming book adaptations that’s new to streaming this week is the movie for Ruth Ware’s bestselling thriller, The Woman In Cabin 10. Like the novel, it follows a journalist who gets invited on a fancy yacht to cover her latest story. While you’d think getting the opportunity to hang out on the water might be the stuff of dreams, when CinemaBlend spoke to Keira Knightley, the actress dispelled any fantasies we might have about the whole thing.  Ahead of The Woman In Cabin 10 becoming one of the new 2025 movies to stream with a Netflix subscription, I got to chat with Knightley and writer/director Simon Stone about the making of the psychological nail-biter. They told me that they spent three weeks on a real yacht shooting The Woman In Cabin 10, but there was a unique vibe on set.

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00:00how much of the film was actually shot on the yacht and what kind of challenges were involved

00:05there we were three weeks three and a half weeks we were on the yacht yeah and what was that a two

00:11months yeah so there was there were another there were and i think there were another eight weeks

00:17or seven or eight weeks elsewhere yeah um so yeah about about a third of it was shot on the yacht

00:27it was you know it's deeply challenging uh uh to represent the kind of luxury and ease uh with

00:38which people usually hang out on a yacht uh when there's just 12 of you uh and having a 70 person

00:48crew that genuinely like when i shot the dig we turned a field in surrey into absolute slush

00:59within like a couple of weeks because that many people the footfall like any festival like woodstock

01:06or glastonbury you mess things up yeah that much equipment that much heavy stuff and like we just

01:12couldn't do that to this to this yacht we couldn't touch the walls we couldn't like we we couldn't

01:18go on the carpets we couldn't touch any of the furniture we weren't allowed to sit on anything

01:22we weren't allowed to lean against anything so we're all kind of in the middle trying not to

01:27touch anything for 12 hours a day you know i mean it was uh we were like we were the we were like

01:33and we necessarily needed to be treated like school kids but i haven't been treated like that for years

01:39no but it was like simon don't do that simon don't do that get off the carpet yeah don't touch this

01:43seat and it was as soon as like the actors we were allowed on the carpets and on the seats when we

01:48were filming but as soon as he said cut even if we hadn't finished the scene it was like sorry could

01:52you get off the get off the seat please get off the carpet and you're back to kind of standing in

01:55the middle of the thing off the carpet but because because if if the carpet is worth you know 200 grand

02:03i didn't want to pay for the car no none of us wanted to pay for the carpet that would have taken

02:08like that would have taken a whole day's worth of shooting off of our schedule so it was good that

02:13we just all behaved ourselves but it was we were all terrified of getting a bill for anything yeah

02:18which is quite funny to watch to watch people that you've seen not be terrified like keira knightley

02:25terrified and hannah waddingham a gray carpet we were terrified of this gray carpet i'm like that looks

02:30like any other gray carpet and yet you are fluffing this carpet i'm not allowed to stand on the carpet

02:35yeah yeah it was actually there is a comedy there is a comedy about a a-list a-list filmmakers

02:44feeling terrified of a gray carpet and the people who are telling you yes not to do the wrong thing

02:52and that you're not allowed to have that coffee in your hand we weren't allowed to eat or drink

02:56anything anywhere apart from tiny little designated areas where we'd all cram into the designated area

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