{"id":202972,"date":"2025-10-16T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202972\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:05:09","slug":"the-iris-affair-ive-never-actually-seen-an-irish-character-that-is-a-genius-has-a-mind-the-size-of-a-planet-so-to-play-one-in-iris-is-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202972\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iris Affair: \u2018I\u2019ve never actually seen an Irish character that is a genius, has a mind the size of a planet\u2026 so to play one in Iris is great\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">As new Sky drama The Iris Affair hits screens, stars Niamh Algar and Tom Hollander talk about getting to grips with its physicality and computing-specific lexicon\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Niamh Algar as Iris Nixon in The Iris Affair\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2b6ddbe2-99d9-4f62-8e1e-b5c51402d3e7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Niamh Algar as Iris Nixon in The Iris Affair<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A high-octane drama which has been described by one of its lead stars as a blend of Good Will Hunting, The Talented Mr Ripley and The Bourne Ultimatum hits screens today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sky drama The Iris Affair, created by Neil Cross, who is also responsible for Luther, stars Irish actress Niamh Algar and English actor Tom Hollander in a cat-and-mouse game across some of Europe\u2019s most scenic backdrops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As new Sky drama The Iris Affair hits screens, stars Niamh Algar and Tom Hollander talk about getting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[35977,96,7355,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-202972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-aine-toner","tag-entertainment","tag-sky","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}