the hot and sultry look

More than 100 costumes were handmade under the eye of Oscar-nominated costume designer Paco Delgado, who wanted them to evoke the period of a hot and sultry 1937. The colour palette, as on the boat, was deliberately light and summery. Although set just before the Second World War, because the characters are mostly aristocrats their clothes are glamorous and expensive with Gal Gadot, as Linnet (pictured with Simon), getting more than her fair share of beautiful dresses.

‘The inspirations were noir classics, Dial M For Murder, Double Indemnity and later pictures such as Body Heat and Fatal Attraction,’ says Kenneth Branagh. ‘These hot, lusty atmospheres. People in the grip of extreme passion do dangerous things.’