PHOTOS PICTURE HOUSE ENTERTAINMENT
Would-be writer Laura (Holliday Grainger) and her bff Tyler (Alia Shawkat) share a Dublin apartment – and a penchant for sex, drugs and er, lots of wine – in Sophie Hyde’s Animals. But when Laura meets Jim (Fra Fee), a sweet, straight-laced – and very sober – pianist, Tyler worries the party may be over. What did it take for this pair, Shawkat and Grainger, to form that on-screen bond? And, as the two move into their 30s, was there any crossover IRL?
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