Fiona Shaw: ‘It’s much easier to play the selfish person’

Fiona Shaw and director Rebecca Lenkiewicz tell Lynn Rusk how Hot Milk explores mother-daughter relationships and psychosomatic illness.

Fiona Shaw as Rose and Emma Mackey as Sofia in Hot Milk. Picture: MUBI

“I had the easier job – it’s much easier to play the selfish person,” reflects Irish actress Fiona Shaw.

The 66-year-old TV Bafta winner stars as Rose, a mother with a mysterious illness, in Hot Milk, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s 2016 novel.