The North Water: Keeping it real

If you’ve ever stumbled across a film set, with its multiple trucks, catering trailers, cables and tables, you’ll know that even filming a 30-second advertisement is a massive production. Now, imagine taking all of that and moving it to the Arctic Circle so you can film on the ice. The man in charge, director Andrew Haigh, had a whale of a vision! “Ian McGuire’s novel [of the same name, published in 2016] vividly evokes the brutal beauty of the Arctic environment, and I knew I had to try and bring a similar realism to the show. Despite the obvious challenges, shooting in the Arctic seemed like the very best option. I wanted us to feel the biting