Emma Thompson is to star alongside her daughter Gaia Wise in a new action thriller, The Dead Of Winter.
The young actress, who is also daughter to actor Greg Wise, will play a younger version of Emma's character Barb, a woman travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, who accidentally interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl.
"I was just very excited. I think I was also excited that we could be together for this amount of time, because I stayed in Finland the whole time we were filming", Gaia Wise said of working with her mother. "Because I was on call, it was like, if the weather didn’t quite permit a scene they might call us in to do something, so it was always up in the air".
"But I just wanted to be there, not just to support her, but to be there for the whole thing, because I just wanted to sort of see it and see our character as well", she added. "Professionally, just watching somebody who I’ve learned so much from do something quite alien was amazing and made me go, ‘Okay. So this is possible".
Elsewhere, Emma Thompson said that she was "shocked" by how "violently cold" it was while filming for this movie in Finland.
"It always starts with a script, this brilliant script by these two Minnesotan writers, who based the story on all the women that they know in Minnesota", she said. "These incredibly tough, resilient, imaginative, resourceful, funny, witty women that they grew up with".
"So it’s a sort of new kind of hero. It’s a female hero who’s not some sort of special ops person, who has special skills", the actress continued. "She’s just doing what she does, as it were, as a matter of course. She doesn’t feel heroic. She’s just doing what’s necessary".
She added: "I took a month to assimilate really, acclimatise to Finland because when I arrived it was -29 degrees. So it was really violently cold".
The Dead Of Winter, which is directed by Brian Kirk, and written by Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and Dalton Leeb, will be released on September 26.
