Keira Knightley & Simon Stone Tease The Woman in Cabin 10’s Great Mystery

Keira Knightley & Simon Stone Tease The Woman in Cabin 10’s Great Mystery

My dear, why would you be targeted? To kill me. To silence me. Liam Crowley with Screen Rank. Guys, thanks so much for taking the time today. Thanks for having us. I feel like we’re in a bit of like a murder mystery psychological thriller renaissance right now. And The Woman in Cabin 10 is a lovely installment into that genre. Uh to start with you both, you’re familiar with Ruth’s work going into this project. Did you know about her books? When were you first introduced to The Woman in the Cabin 10 from a novel standpoint? How did you guys first get involved with the story? You asked me not to read it, so I didn’t. Yeah, she didn’t. She still hasn’t read it. Still haven’t read it. He was like, “Look, we’re making the film. I’ve made some changes. I need you to be part of the film. This is it.” I was like, “Okay, cool.” Uh, yeah. I I had I have to confess, I’m not the target audience for these kinds of books. I don’t pick them up at at the airport. I don’t I don’t read them. Uh, my wife reads a lot of books like this and and uh, but I hadn’t I didn’t know Ruth’s name and I didn’t know this book and and Netflix sent me this. Um, was it already a screenplay when they sent it? It was already a screenplay. They’d already they bought it. I think like Netflix often buys work that other people have optioned, but Netflix directly optioned this book. They were like, “This is in our we wheelhouse. we’re going to get this. So, they just sent it to me and said, “Look,” because I’d asked for a thriller, they sent it to me and and I was just so I what I really loved and what I think is really exciting in in cinema, if you can get it right, and it’s been happening quite a lot since the birth of cinema, which is that you take a genre that hasn’t been around for a long time. And for me, Lady Vanishes was like one of those incredibly uh groundbreaking movies for me watching as a kid cuz it was this film, you know, made in the 30s, but it was so scintillating. It’s it’s a woman chatting with another woman on a train and then she falls asleep and she wakes up and everyone says, “There was never a woman there. What are you talking about?” And like that as a premise, I was just like, that’s so extraordinary. And I thought that it was an adaptation of of that film, but but but it’s not. Ruth is obviously deeply influenced by that. Uh so for me, it’s a Hitchcock movie that we can then turn into an incredibly contemporary film, which is fun. That’s an incredible sales pitch. We need to put that on the poster. Uh, Kira, I if you’ll stay with me here on this question, I took a psychology class in college my sophomore year and one of the things they showed us was this experiment where there were a bunch of people in a waiting room and they would sound a buzzer and all the people that were in on the experiment would stand and the one person that wasn’t would just stay sitting. By the third buzzer, that person also started standing. They didn’t know why. They were just kind of going along with with the vibe with Low. I feel like everyone on this ship is telling her, “This person doesn’t exist. There’s no one in cabin 10. You’re crazy. we’re gaslighting you. How does she stay focused? How does she still see it through? What what about her personality makes her not be convinced by the by the majority? She’s a dog with a bone. I mean, and I think that’s what a good journalist is, right? A good journalist is a dog with a bone and she knows that it’s true and then she keeps on finding little bits that it telling her it’s true and she’s not going to she’s not going to cow down to anyone. I would I’d like to say 100% be the person after the third buzzer that stands up. I’d be like, I’m so sorry. I completely got that wrong. I don’t, you know, and I think that’s what I loved about the character is that she absolutely doesn’t. She’s like, she something has happened and I’m going to prove it and I’m going to figure this out and she just goes and she goes and she goes, but it is the stuff of nightmares, you know, knowing that you you are right and that you’ve got the truth and everybody around you telling you that you are wrong. It takes an incredibly strong person to be able to go, no, this is the truth and I’ll keep going forward. I also feel as if she goes, I’m going to deal with all of the psychological hurt and the ostracization and the outsiderness that I have received on this boat in therapy in 6 months time. But right now I need to focus on telling the truth. But like clearly that must be like that’s a a bludgeoning of your ego that that that that’s going on on there of like everyone is telling you you’re making everything worse. Uh and as you say that’s a nightmare. It’s a nightmare. Yeah. Yeah. It adds a new layer to to watching this film for a second time. That’s for sure. Uh guys, I’ll wrap with this. Kira, you gave an interview in 2020 uh where you mentioned that you you forgot you were in Star Wars. That was my introduction to your work. You were in the Phantom Menace way back when. Are you aware that like Sabay as a character there’s been so much lore that’s been expanded about her? Like there are there are stories have them been like fleshed out about this character? Really? I wasn’t I mean that’s very excit. Do you think I’m going to get like a spin-off surve? That’s what that’s what I wanted to ask you. Like would you would you want to explore again? I’ll go pitch it to Is it Disney that do Yeah. Like Disney and Lucas? Why is Brian Gosling getting the spin-off? I should be getting the spin. I’m going to phone Ryan and be like, “Dude, what happened to S?” And also, Natalie Portman could be in it or or is she still alive? Is she Well, we can go back in time. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It’s okay. We don’t have to worry about that kind of thing. Prequels to the There is a moment in this film where you look like Natalie Portman. I mean, very briefly because of the the light changes and you suddenly look like Natalie Portman, which always makes me think of Star Wars. There you go. Okay. Well, hey, looks like we’re getting a Sav prequel. Who knows? Uh yeah, we play with all the different timelines. It’s so much fun. But guys, for real, this film is in Is it fair to call it a joy? It’s a bit of a It took me on a lot of different emotions, but I was happy with the resolution at the end. So excited for the world to check this one out.

The Woman in Cabin 10 star Keira Knightley and Simon Stone discuss their approach to Netflix’s adaptation of the beloved mystery novel and reflect of Knightley’s time as Sabé in the Star Wars prequels.

The Woman in Cabin 10 begins streaming October 10 on Netflix.

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