Keira Knightley is firmly in her pulpy, pacy thriller era. After holding the British government to account as an Iraq War whistleblower in Official Secrets , hunting down a ’60s serial killer in Boston Strangler , and leaping into the part of Black Doves ’ lethal Helen Webb with guns blazing, the 40-year-old, twice-Oscar-nominated Londoner is throwing herself into another no-holds-barred, edge-of-your-seat crowdpleaser: The Woman in Cabin 10 , Simon Stone’s breathless Netflix adaptation of Ruth Ware’s 2016 bestseller.
An atmospheric hair-raiser set on a chilly super yacht, it casts our heroine as the no-nonsense Laura “Lo” Blacklock, a dogged journalist dispatched to report on some frosty billionaires. One night, in the middle of the inky black sea, Lo hears a commotion in the cab