Keira Knightley on 'The Woman in Cabin 10' and the Untouchable Yacht

Keira Knightley is the first one to say her new film The Woman in Cabin 10 (Netflix) is “rather tense.” That said, “part of the joy of making something that's sort of so tense and twisted and strange is when you're working with really lovely people, you can also have a bit of a giggle,” Knightley told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. Knightley plays Laura Blacklock, a journalist on an assignment on a super yacht with billionaires who don’t believe her when she stumbles on a gruesome secret. She says the film is “definitely playing with the idea of like, women are not believed,” but that gave her the opportunity to do something she’s never done before. “Love being the hero, as well. It was very exciting.” In fact, she joked about telling a fellow actor, “’I don't care that you can run that fast. You don't get to catch me because I'm the hero, OK?’” [laughs] Looking back at her career, while she doesn’t have the nostalgic relationship with her films that many fans have, she does look back on quite a few fondly, particularly Bend It Like Beckham. “There is still not another film about women's soccer. And it did have a place in that cultural landscape. And I think it did help to tell girls that it was okay to like soccer and play soccer.” 

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