In The Woman in Cabin 10, Netflix’s new potboiler, Keira Knightley plays a fearless justice warrior, a lone voice of dogged truth in a maelstrom of corruption, and this is not her first foray into such terrain: six years ago she played the whistleblower Katharine Gun in Official Secrets, the 2019 film about some pretty dicey US and UK behaviour before the Iraq war.
This time round she’s a journalist, though – and not just any old hack, a Guardian journalist. Exhausted and possibly traumatised by a crusading investigation she has just finished about some bad people doing bad things, she accepts a trip on a billionaire’s yacht for a breather, only to discover that billionaires are also bad. You cannot call that a spoiler, even though it technically is one. You’re reading the Guardian, for Pete’s sake.
Doesn’t work, does it? All Guardian journalists are bigger tits than that.
It’s already highly implausible a Grauniad “journalist” would be invited to a billionaire’s yacht to begin with.
The constant nagging and sourpussing about Inequality and Climate, and Social Justice alone…
Obviously doing her night job because she ain’t gonna make ends meet on a Guardian journalist’s wedge.
I can see it happening, with the trip possibly being interrupted in the middle of the ocean.
Even the biological male Graudian journos will have bigger tits than Keira.
Especially works just as well there in place of the even I think….
You never see Jack Grealish and Keira K together.
Just saying….
Golly, does she dribble too?
That’s not a nice question to ask of a lady….
They all dribble: if they didn’t, they’d squeak when walking…
No doubt if the plot follows the usual lines she will defeat a heavily armed, huge and muscular ex special forces henchman with her bare hands, perhaps hitting him with a keyboard snatched from a desk.
An IBM Model M keyboard would certainly be capable of doubling as an offensive weapon. Not any of today’s tacky plastic crap.
How many pounds did Knightly put on for the role and will she be able to shed them afterwards;)
My wife put it on saying the book was good, the adaptation was awful, every time you thought it couldn’t get stupider it did