“Jimpa” director Sophie Hyde dished about her leading man at the Sundance Film Festival.

That was part of what appealed to John.

We now know who the character is.'"

John Lithgow stars in the new movie ‘Jimpa’

John Lithgow stars in the new movie ‘Jimpa’.Credit:Frazer Harrison/Getty

TheGood Luck to You, Leo Grandedirector said nudity came up in their first conversation.

“John just comes at character with this huge gusto,” Hyde explains.

Hyde didn’t want to spoil anything by giving away whether prosthetics were used.

John Lithgow and Olivia Colman star in ‘Jimpa’

John Lithgow and Olivia Colman star in ‘Jimpa’.Courtesy of Sundance Institute

He is absolutely wonderful."

Lithgow costars in the touching drama alongsideOlivia Colmanand Aud Mason-Hyde.

Colman’s Hannah and her non-binary child Frances reconnect with him over the course of the film.

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“It was instantly cozy.”

“It’s in our rider to only work together on deathbeds,” Colman teases.

“Don’t give everything away,” Lithgow cautions her.

Kindly, of course.

Reporting by Gerrad Hall and Alamin Yohannes