Fiona Shaw enjoyed being in 'IF' as "no one gets hurt"

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The Killing Eve star has become synonymous with perilous TV in recent years, but is taking a break with  Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I'm always reminding people that you're in Three Men and a Little Lady.

00:02Yes.

00:03You know when you're going, I love that person from this, I'm going, Three Men and a Little Lady, go back.

00:06That's a hidden gem of a film.

00:08It is.

00:09I still hold my cups of tea like Tom Selleck.

00:10A lot of people see it. I think it still plays on TV, doesn't it?

00:14It's still going, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

00:15Yeah, it's still going to follow.

00:16In more recent years, your hit rate has been only quality.

00:20We've had Andor and Fleabag and of course Killing Eve.

00:24So teaming up with someone like John Krasinski, who's one of those really high-flying creatives right now,

00:30where everything he touches turns to gold, that must be a no-brainer for an actor.

00:33Well, it's a no-brainer. He's a delightful man.

00:35He's a lovely person to be with and I'd say working with him, it's not really work, it's pleasure.

00:41So we had a great time on this film.

00:42It's a great pleasure to be with him.

00:44And lovely to be in New York and going over the bridge in the morning to work

00:47and then seeing John's smiling face, you know, it wasn't hard.

00:51A lot of the stuff we've seen you in in recent years has had a lot of heart,

00:54but there's been a real bite to it as well, a real sort of adult bite to it.

00:57To come back and do something exclusively for children and kind of warm in that way,

01:03is that kind of almost like a palate cleanser for an actor?

01:06It's very nice. I mean, you know that nobody's going to get really hurt in this film

01:11and that's a nice feeling when you're making it because very often, you know,

01:14something like, I don't know, Night Country or something where the stakes are really high,

01:20but this is a gentle film.

01:22The concept of it reminded me of one of my childhood favourite films of Drop Dead Fred

01:26with the dearly departed Rick Mayle and Phoebe Cage back in 90.

01:30But I think this one is a lot warmer, I think, in a way.

01:34What's the kind of a takeaway, would you say, for audiences of a film like this?

01:38Children are always empowered against adults if they use their imagination.

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