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Some directors might feel shooting a virtual two-hander almost entirely set in a hotel room is restrictive. But not Sophie Hyde (Animals). “I bloody loved it! I loved every second of it,” she chuckles, speaking to Teasers from her “shed” in Adelaide, Australia. Of course, it helps when you’ve got a cracking script from comedian Katy Brand, and Emma Thompson as your leading lady. “She wanted to do this role very much,” adds Hyde. “She related to the character and understood her as someone that she’d always wanted to play.”

Set over a series of encounters in said room, Good Luck To You, Leo Grande “Nancy… she has accepted the boxes that have been offered,” says Hyde. “You’re a woman, you’re a mother, you’re a wife, you’re a teacher. She’s accepted what that means. And Leo often challenges her on certain beliefs that she spouts.” stars Thompson as Nancy, a widow and retired religious education teacher who decides to hire the titular sex worker (Peaky Blinders star Daryl McCormack). After a staid marriage, the nervy Nancy resolves to open herself up to new experiences.

“Nancy… she has accepted the boxes that have been offered,” says Hyde. “You’re a woman, you’re a mother, you’re a wife, you’re a teacher. She’s accepted what that means. And Leo often challenges her on certain beliefs that she spouts.”

Hyde feels that’s sadly all too common in women. “Are we raised to believe that we can go after what we want?

Definitely not. We’re raised to think about how to look after everybody.”

Yet what brought two-time Oscarwinner Thompson to play Nancy? On the surface, they seem poles apart.

“Emma knows that there’s some parallel universe where she could have been like Nancy,” argues Hyde. “It’s close enough to her and yet really distant from the woman that she is now. But there was something in her – or the people that she knew and grew up with – that made her feel like it was the right thing to do.”

After an initial meet-up shrouded in embarrassment, Nancy gradually warms to her male companion – which meant working out with the actors the thorny question of on-screen nudity.

“I was very clear with Emma that she didn’t have to show anything. There were ways of telling this story without a single bit of that. Emma is just a person who will confront her own fears, to do what she believes in. And that’s what she chose to do in this. So once she decided to do it, she was all in, no matter how difficult that felt.”