"Explosions weren't a problem, nor were the guns, fire, multiple fights and a spell underwater but dealing with cockroaches? The line was drawn. That was the one stunt we weren't allowed to do, says Niamh Algar with a laugh, because cockroaches are actually quite dangerous. Plus, she says with a wry smile, you can't train one not to bite. It's not too much of a spoiler to say her character in the new Sky Atlantic show The Iris Affair"
"She stole it from Cameron Beck (a typically wonderful Tom Hollander), who has borrowed vast amounts of money so that in a brutalist bunker somewhere in the Italian mountains he can make the machine, named Charlie Big Potatoes well, he's not small potatoes, says Beck of the most powerful computer ever built. His life now depends on getting it going again."
Niamh Algar plays Iris Nixon, a genius who disappears with a notebook containing an encrypted activation sequence needed to wake a supercomputer. She stole the notebook from Cameron Beck, whose project is housed in a brutalist bunker in the Italian mountains. The machine, nicknamed Charlie Big Potatoes, is described as the most powerful computer ever built and central to Beck's financial and personal survival. The series includes action set pieces—explosions, guns, fights and an underwater stunt—and a scene with a cockroach infestation handled with CGI and props. The tone is fast and fun while raising existential questions about technology, consciousness and whether advanced AI could threaten humanity.
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