Phoebe Dynevor has just confessed that she had a “bit of a panic attack” during the grueling filming Tras, which will be released on April 10, 2026.
The 30-year-old actress plays newly single and nine-months-pregnant mother Lisa in Netflix’s new shark horror, and her character gets stuck in her Mini Cooper in a Category 5 hurricane before the predators start circling.
When asked if she felt claustrophobic during filming, she said The Hollywood Reporter, “I did at one point, yes. I thought I was in the right place, and then at one point I had a bit of a panic attack.”
She continued, “The branches were everywhere, and then the water rising was very scary. The water didn’t really rise; the car fell into the water.”
“But it’s still scary. Obviously you know you’re safe, but your body doesn’t. So after being in that situation all day for a week, or however long it took to shoot it, I was pretty exhausted,” Phoebe added.
Although the Bridgerton star, noting that it was “definitely not an easy job,” she admitted that it was the most comfortable she’s ever been on a film set.
She said: “Without a doubt, yes. When I was told we were shooting this film in Australia I thought, ‘Great, I’m going to learn to surf. It’s going to be so tropical and hot. It’s going to be a lot of fun’.”
“While we were filming, I slowly realized that the climate in Melbourne was a bit cooler and that we were shooting in the dead of the Australian winter,” she recalls, adding, “So I left beautiful, sunny June in London to go to Melbourne in the dead of winter, and that was basically the beginning of the end.”
She also recalled having to wear three wetsuits and a ‘maternity belly’ consisting of a maternity dress and a trench coat, which made the experience much harder.
“The process of putting on one wetsuit is already quite difficult, but putting on three and then making a belly is virtually impossible,” Phoebe revealed.
She continued, “Then I was plunged into a very cold water that couldn’t be warm. When it was warm, you could see the heat rising from 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,” says the Fair play said actress.
However, there was a sense of camaraderie with the crew as everyone was in the same boat, as Phoebe Dynevor explained: “The great and fun thing about it was that the crew were in the water with us. They were wearing wetsuits, so we were all wet. It really felt like a team effort because we were all uncomfortable, not just the actors.”
