The Hilarious Challenges Of Filming On A Luxury Yacht With Keira Knightley

How much of the film was actually shot on the yacht, and what kind of challenges were involved there? We were three weeks, three and a half weeks, we were on the yacht. Yeah. And what was it, two months? Yeah, so there were another, I think there were another eight weeks, or seven or eight weeks elsewhere. Yeah. So, yeah, about a third of it was shot on the yacht. It's deeply challenging to represent the kind of luxury and ease with which people usually hang out on a yacht when there's just 12 of you and having a 70-person crew that genuinely, like when I shot the dig, we turned a field in Surrey into absolute slush within a couple of weeks. because that many people the footfall like any festival like Woodstock or Glastonbury you mess things up yeah that much equipment that much heavy stuff and like we just couldn't do that to this to this yacht we couldn't touch the walls we couldn't like we we couldn't go on the carpets we couldn't touch any of the furniture we weren't allowed to sit on anything we weren't allowed to lean against anything so we're all kind of in the middle trying not to touch anything for 12 hours a day you know i mean it was uh we were like we were the we were like and we necessarily needed to be treated like school kids but i haven't been treated like that for years no but it was like simon don't do that simon don't do that get off the carpet yeah don't touch this seat and it was as soon as like the actors we were allowed on the carpets and on the seats when we were filming but as soon as he said cut even if we hadn't finished the scene it was like sorry could you get off the get off the seat please get off the carpet and you're back to kind of standing in the middle off the carpet but because because if if the carpet is worth you know 200 grand i didn't want to pay for the carpet none of us wanted to pay for the carpet that would have taken like that would have taken a whole day's worth of shooting off of our schedule so it was good that we just all behaved ourselves but it was we were all terrified of getting a bill for anything yeah which is quite funny to watch to watch people that you've seen not be terrified like Keira Knightley and Hannah Waddingham a grey carpet we were terrified of this grey carpet I'm like that looks like any other grey carpet and yet you are fluffing this carpet up I'm not allowed to stand on the carpet yeah yeah actually there is a comedy there is a comedy about A-list A-list filmmakers feeling terrified of a grey carpet and the people who are telling you not to do the wrong thing and that you're not allowed to have that coffee in your hand We weren't allowed to eat or drink anything anywhere apart from tiny little designated areas where we'd all cram into the designated area. In the garage. In the garage. Yeah.