Thrash star Phoebe Dynevor has explained how she was “obsessed” with doing justice to her character’s childbirth scene in the Netflix shark movie.
Phoebe Dynevor was “obsessed” with perfecting the childbirth scene in her movie Thrash.
The 30-year-old star plays expectant mother Lisa Fields in the Netflix shark thriller and explained how she and co-star Whitney Peak painstakingly prepared for the scene where her alter ego gives birth in the water.
Phoebe told Collider: “I haven’t yet had a baby or been in childbirth, so that was something that I was really obsessed with getting right, and especially tracking the labour process and where she was in the labour stages.
“That was really important to me. But also, yeah, tricky to figure out the stress of going through childbirth and being so terrified you might not survive the elements. It was a challenging shoot, but I had Whitney.”
Thrash sees a coastal town swarmed by hungry sharks when a severe hurricane floods the area and Phoebe lamented how working with vast quantities of water left her unable to have a relaxing bath after a day on set.
The Bridgerton star said: “I have this practice after a day’s work where I go home and take a bath, and that gets a character out of me, and then I can sleep.
“On this movie, I couldn’t do that because I couldn’t bear to be in a body of water after I’d spent all day in a body of water.”
Phoebe also recalled having a “bit of a panic attack” during filming for a scene where Lisa gets trapped in her car as the hurricane rages and sharks begin to circle.
Asked if she felt claustrophobic during filming, she told The Hollywood Reporter: “I did at one point, yeah. I thought I was good, and then I had a little bit of a panic attack at a certain point.
“The branches were everywhere, and then the water rising was very scary. The water was not actually rising; the car was getting dropped into water.
“But it’s still scary. You know you’re safe, obviously, but your body doesn’t. So after being in that situation all day for a week, or however long it took us to shoot it, I was pretty drained.”
Dynevor confessed that it wasn’t quite what she expected when she signed up for the movie, which was shot in the Australian city of Melbourne.
The Inheritance star said: “When I was told we were shooting this movie in Australia, I thought, ‘Great, I’m going to learn how to surf. It’s going to be so tropical and hot. It’s going to be a lot of fun.’
“Then I slowly realised while we were shooting that the climate is a little bit cooler in Melbourne and that we were shooting in the dead of the Australian winter.
“So I left beautiful, sunny June in London to go to Melbourne in the dead of winter, and that was the beginning of the end, really.”
Phoebe Dynevor was determined to give an authentic childbirth portrayal in Thrash
