Is being a Guardian reporter as exciting as the movies make out?

<p>Keira Knightley cuts a more glamorous figure than most Guardian staff in her new Netflix film The Woman in Cabin 10, while Tennant is a dead ringer for star reporter Nick Davies. But how convincing are they?</p><p>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 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/18/official-secrets-review-keira-knightley-whistleblower">Official Secrets</a>, the 2019 film about some pretty dicey US and UK behaviour before the Iraq war.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/10/the-woman-in-cabin-10-review-keira-knightley-megayacht-thriller">This time round she’s a journalist</a>, 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 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/apr/22/secrecy-sex-and-sun-captain-reveals-life-aboard-superyachts">also bad</a>. You cannot call that a spoiler, even though it technically is one. You’re reading the Guardian, for Pete’s sake.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/10/keira-knightley-netflix-woman-in-cabin-10-guardian-in-the-movies">Continue reading...</a>