Fiona Shaw
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Sep 24, 2026
Heimir HallgrímssonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Today, they are seventy-eight.
Eamon TorsneyHOST
And Fiona Shaw has revealed she nearly quit acting.
Eamon TorsneyHOST
The Irish Harry Potter star says she considered leaving the industry in twenty thirteen while performing in New York.
Eamon TorsneyHOST
She told Good Housekeeping UK she felt no joy and was tired and thought about becoming a teacher.
Rudi GreenbergHOST
Um, Sense and Sensibility was directed by Georgia Oakley.
Rudi GreenbergHOST
It stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, George MacKay, Fiona Shaw.
Rudi GreenbergHOST
This is a Focus Features film.
Rudi GreenbergHOST
It is based on the 1811 book Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, which was her debut novel.
Giles AldersonHOST
We are tackling a literary masterpiece, but we are looking at it through a completely fresh, vibrant and fiercely cinematic lens.
Giles AldersonHOST
As we are joined by the phenomenally, phenomenally, phenomenally, phenomenally, phenomenally talented director Georgia Oakley and the absolute acting titan Fiona Shaw.
Giles AldersonHOST
Georgia Oakley is fresh off the massive success of her BAFTA-nominated debut feature film, Blue Jean, which won the Venice People's Choice Award.
Giles AldersonHOST
She also cut her teeth making brilliant short films like Little Bird and coming up through the BFI, Flair Mentorship.
Giles AldersonHOST
I give her credit, but she was amazing.
Giles AldersonHOST
And now Georgia, after having that amazing experience with me, has stepped up to direct a stunning new adaption of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
Giles AldersonHOST
And what can we say about Fiona Shaw, who joins Georgia and me on this episode? She is a true legend of the craft and a CBE.
Giles AldersonHOST
So she's won multiple Olivia Awards on stage.
Josh SmithHOST
Welcome back to Josh Smith's Great Chat Show, the podcast all about the chats that matter.
Josh SmithHOST
And today I'm taking the show out of the studio to meet the Fiona Shaw, the legend who is now also starring in Sense and Sensibility.
Josh SmithHOST
Now, she reveals a very epic, mischievous story from her past.
Josh SmithHOST
She was a bit of a badass before.
Josh SmithHOST
Oh, is she? Yeah.
Josh SmithHOST
Oh, my God, the best.
Josh SmithHOST
And so many people have said to me, since we first had Jodie on at the beginning of the podcast, you have to get Fiona Shaw on.
Fiona ShawGUEST
Ah.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
Let's hear her in action from the film.
Cathy Rose O'BrienHOST
First, in this scene, the Dashwood women meet their high-energy cousin, Mrs Jennings, played by fellow Irishwoman Fiona Shaw.
Caitríona BalfeGUEST
Marianne, this is Mrs Jennings, our cousin.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Cousin?
Sophia CiminelloPANELIST
Oh, yes.
Sophia CiminelloPANELIST
Um, well Fiona Shaw is delightful as always.
Sophia CiminelloPANELIST
She's Mrs. Jennings.
Sophia CiminelloPANELIST
Um, and Esme Creed-Miles, um, plays Marianne, and she's also wonderful.
Tom SutcliffeHOST
How well do we get that aspect of
Samantha EllisGUEST
the novel? Fiona Shaw as Mrs Jennings is wonderful.
Samantha EllisGUEST
And it's so lovely to see her just as an older woman with a zest for life.
Samantha EllisGUEST
She's just having so much fun.
Jonathan RossHOST
They all look...
Jonathan RossHOST
It's really well cast, although the, the star of the show, of course, is Fiona Shaw.
Honey RossHOST
Oh my God.
Jonathan RossHOST
But Mrs. Jennings is the best part in it anyway.
Jonathan RossHOST
Oh, no.
Jonathan RossHOST
Here she soars.
Jonathan RossHOST
It's Fiona Shaw's moment.
Jonathan RossHOST
All hail the queen.
Fred AsquithHOST
It's starring Esme Creed Miles as Marianne, George Mackay as Edward.
Fred AsquithHOST
It's also starring Fiona Shaw as Mrs. Jennings, who you may know as Aunt Petunia in the original Harry Potter series.
Fred AsquithHOST
Three sisters experience love and heartbreak after they're forced to leave their family estate with their widowed mother and move to a humble cottage.
Fred AsquithHOST
I just said mother and not mother.
Fred AsquithHOST
It's really, really sweet and funny.
Fred AsquithHOST
The performances are great.
Fred AsquithHOST
Fiona Shaw as Mrs. Jennings, who gives a hilarious performance.
Fred AsquithHOST
Bumbling, jolly, extravagant, extroverted woman.
Patrick GeogheganHOST
More than two centuries later, the story of the Dashwood sisters continues to attract new readers and new interpretations.
Patrick GeogheganHOST
31 years after Ang Lee's celebrated 1999 film, adapted by and starring Emma Thompson alongside Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman, Sense and Sensibility is returning to the cinema – The new film, directed by Georgia Oakley, stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Katrina Balfe and Fiona Shaw.
Patrick GeogheganHOST
In this episode, we want to explore what Sense and Sensibility meant to Austen's original readers, what the novel tells us about women, money, marriage and independence, and why each new generation seeks to rediscover its own sense and sensibility.
Patrick GeogheganHOST
And to help me do this, I'm delighted to welcome our panel of experts.
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