Emma Thompson： THE SHEEP DETECTIVES

One of the greatest things about working on this is to work with Craig Mason's script because he's such a wonderful writer and it's fantastic to go from somebody who can write such dark and deep things as Chernobyl and then, you know, turn his hand to something that is also incredibly deep but which has such humour and humanity and profundity and, you know, examines as well this very close link between humans and animals or human animals and other animals. I get a lot of information from, for instance, the costume and our wonderful costume designer Rosa has created these extraordinarily beautiful, tailored and incredibly cut suits. It's a sort of architecture really more than clothing and they're in very bright colours so whilst they're power suits they're also in very friendly colours so that gave me the notion that perhaps Lydia was the sort of person who was very powerful but was also determined not to come across as too strong. We are also very lucky to have the extraordinary Kyle Balder who's of course responsible for those brilliant Despicable Me movies and this is amazingly his first live action movie and he's just been, I mean, you wouldn't know it, you absolutely wouldn't know it. He's delightful, he knows what to do, what to say, he's just been a delight to work with, really a delight, a lovely man with great sense of exactly what he wants and so, so calm.