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We wanted to mix levity and humor with our heavy drama and emotional stuff.

“Within that scene, which could be just an absolutely brutal slog, he finds these moments of levity and eccentricity,” Bailey said.

There was a moment of levity when Mr Roy asked the leaders if they were buying fewer US products - like many Canadians are in the face of tariffs - at the grocery store.

He summoned some levity during a November “Today” appearance, telling Hoda Kotb his current best joke was that in four short weeks he had “gone from a Virgo to a Cancer.”

McCardle, who has also appeared in Mary Queen of Scots and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, said the brothers had created a script which found moments of levity despite the heavy subject matter.