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Dynevor admits she’s never been more uncomfortable on a set due to the half-dozen layers she had to wear in freezing cold water.

“I would put on three wetsuits every day — plus a pregnancy belly [maternity dress and trench coat]. The process of getting into a wetsuit is already quite difficult, but putting on three and then a belly is virtually impossible,” Dynevor tells The Hollywood Reporter in support of Thrash’s April 10 Netflix premiere. “Then I was plunged into a really cold body of water. If it was warm, you’d see the heat rise off it. So it had to be cold, and I ended up really making friends with a hot hose that would go into my wetsuits in between takes.”

Like a lot of genre fans, Dynevor was disappointed when M. Night Shyamalan’s supernatural love story, Remain, was delayed from October 2026 to February 2027 for the benefit of Valentine’s Day audiences. The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable filmmaker is widely known for his deployment of plot twists, but he’s already revealed a major one as far as Remain is concerned. The film is based on a story that Shyamalan and novelist Nicholas Sparks conceived together.

The pairing of the famed genre filmmaker and celebrated romance author is not completely out of left field. Shyamalan previously turned down the chance to script the film adaptation of Sparks’ The Notebook because he was tied up writing The Sixth Sense at the time. Ultimately, the right decisions were made as each film would go on to become their highest grossers at the box office. In any event, Shyamalan and Sparks took their co-written story of Remain and adapted it to their respective mediums. Sparks primarily wrote the novelization, but Shyamalan did receive co-credit for his contributions.

In the case of the Cape Cod-set film, Dynevor plays a mysterious woman named Wren who challenges the status quo of Jake Gyllenhaal’s grieving architect named Tate Donovan. And while it sounds like Sparks’ novel was potentially available to Shyamalan’s cast and crew before its street date of October 2025, Dynevor shares that she was not permitted to read it due to the expected deviations in plot and character. Sparks previously described the film and the novel as “fraternal twins.”

“I wasn’t allowed to [read it prior to filming] because I was told there are differences,” Dynevor says. “So I read it as soon as we wrapped, and I’m glad that I didn’t read it until I wrapped because they are in fact different. The book is brilliant, and I really enjoyed it.”

Dynevor has yet to see Shyamalan’s big-screen take on Remain, but she believes it’s a perfect balance of each creative’s calling cards. “It really is a perfect blend. There’s romance, but there’s definitely a lot of horror and twists. I really think both Shyamalan fans and Sparks fans will be really happy,” Dynevor adds.

Below, during a conversation with THR, Dynevor also looks back on her most cherished experience to date on Chloe Domont’s Fair Play (2023).

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Thank you for the anxiety attack that is your new movie, Thrash.

You are so welcome. I like to bring anxiety to people.

Phoebe Dynevor as Lisa in Thrash.

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Netflix acquired Thrash from Sony, and you’d already worked with them several times. When they like an actor, they tend to keep working with them. Do you think your history factored into Netflix picking up this movie?

I’d like to believe that was the case, yeah. They’ve definitely acquired a few projects that I’ve done independently from them. They bought Fair Play, for example. So I’m happy that they’re drawn to things th

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