Sun, sex, and synthetic jellyfish: How the film adaptation of Deborah Levy’s sapphic drama Hot Milk was made

On the set of Hot Milk, the film adaptation of Deborah Levy’s 2016, Man Booker-nominated novel of the same name, there was a jellyfish issue.

“The jellyfish were a saga in themselves,” laughs screenwriter and playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz, who is helming the film in her directorial debut. In one pivotal early scene early in the simmering drama, twentysomething anthropology student Sofia (played with bubbling irascibility by Sex Education’s Emma Mackey) is stung by one of the creatures while wading through the Spanish seawater (sort of: the film is set in Almeria, but was filmed in Greece). The crew used a tracking app to try and source the jellies to film, but failing that, they had to be made artificially by production designer Andrey Ponkratov.

“They were getting

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