Sharon Horgan

where you could see who he used to be.

Exactly.

Exactly.

So we needed to see him be a good dad sometimes.

And we needed to see him be vulnerable or feel like a stranger in this Irish family.

And it really helped that he was not an Irishman.

An outsider.

I had seen the Square, but no, it was Nina Gold, our casting agent.

It was her idea.

Yeah.

And then I rewrote it kind of for him to lean into that.

We gave him a Swedish mother and it ended up sort of affecting a lot of the scripts, but in a way that was only positive.

And it's amazing when that happens, when you have something in your mind and you do something completely different and then you go, oh no, this has given us so much more.

The time it came along, I think at that time, everyone really needed the catharsis of hating an awful white religious bigot.

We were all on board for it.

And also that thing of, despite the thriller of it and the caper, it is about family.

Yeah.

We got very lucky.

I love those girls.

One of them is the reason why I am this hungover today.