Fiona Shaw: Killing Eve actress opens up about loss after her brothers tragic death

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Killing Eve star Fiona Shaw, 63, has opened up about the devastating loss of her brother Peter in a car accident when he was just 18 years old. Looking back on the life-changing incident, the award-winning Irish actress spoke about how loss is the “only thing we have” as humans, before drawing a line between loss in real life and loss in performance.

The sorrow of being alive because we love and then we lose

Fiona Shaw

Commenting on whether loss stays with individuals forever, the star said: “Loss is the only thing we have

“We will lose and lose and lose and then we lose ourselves. That is all there is.”

Fiona went on: “The sorrow of being alive because we love and then we lose. The essence of being human is loss.”

However, after her Baptiste co-star Tchéky Karyo chimed in and added that actors draw on their experiences of loss to add to their performance, the star was quick to hit back and separate the two.

Fiona added: “But I will say fiction is fiction and I think loss in life is completely different.”

She went on to explain the difference between the two, emphasising her earlier argument about experiences of loss remaining with us forever.

“I suppose the difference in loss is that when you perform loss, you have just performed it and you go home and have your supper, but people who have really lost, they cannot do that,” she told The Radio Times.

The BBC actress is no stranger to loss after her younger brother Peter tragically died following a car accident when he was 18.

Speaking to the Irish Independent, the star previously told how her brother was on his way to a rugby match with friends when the tragic accident occurred.

Before the devastating event, the actress said that things had been going “so well” for her family and at the time she was at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The Killing Eve star added that she visits Peter’s grave on Christmas Day every year with her older brother John.

Fiona previously told New York Magazine how she channelled the pain from the loss into her role as the mother of Jesus in The Testament of Mary.

Addressing her performance, the Irish star said: “I felt some ownership of that human pain.

“When my brother was killed, I saw him. It’s a well-known pattern.

She went on: “Somebody rolls across the street, and you think, ‘It’s Peter!’

“And he doesn’t exist, of course,” she added.

The actress went on to reveal that the horrific moment made her mother question her religion.

“There’s nothing eerie about it, and my mother says that when she saw Peter she suddenly questioned the Resurrection.”

The Irish actress is set to join the cast of BBC show Baptiste as Emma Chambers, alongside co-star Tchéky, who plays PI Julien Baptiste.

The second series of Baptiste is returning to screens this Sunday on BBC One at 9pm.

This week’s issue of Radio Times is on newsstands now, or you can read more here.

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