Stan Original Film The Portable Door is the escapist film we all need this long weekend.

Miranda Otto seemed destined for fantasy films.

Even before she was old enough to know anything about acting, or being an actor, it seemed to come naturally.

"The first game I can ever remember as a child playing in the playground was the idea of this door, which was just a brick wall on the side of the building and imagining we could go through it and do all these things," she recalled in an interview with Mamamia.

As she recounts this, everyone listening in this Sydney hotel room — including her co-star, Sophie Wilde, sitting next to her — gasp.

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It's prophetic, you see. We are all here to discuss her latest role in Stan Original Film The Portable Door, after all.

The Portable Door is a fantasy adventure, adapted from Tom Holt's best-selling and beloved seven-book fantasy series, centred around Paul Carpenter (Patrick Gibson) and Sophie Petingel (Wilde), lowly interns at mysterious, mystical company J.W. Wells & Co. 

Over time, they become steadily more aware that their bosses — including CEO Humphrey Wells (Christoff Waltz), Dennis Tanner (Sam Neill) and Countess Judy (Otto) — are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to magical practices.

As the name suggests, this all comes back to a magical door, which, when used correctly, can take you anywhere. But, somehow, it's gone missing.

The Portable Door is the latest in a line of fantasy roles for Otto, whose genre credits include Éowyn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series and Zelda Spellman in Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

"I think I just love the escapism of fantasy," she says of why she keeps returning to magical worlds.

"Particularly with how the world's been for the last few years, I love that idea of going into other worlds [and] of being able to imagine myself in another time or another place."

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The Portable Door is Wilde's first foray into the genre, but growing up a huge Harry Potter fan, it was only a matter of time.

The film is an adventure that sees Sophie and Paul visit far fling parts of the world, while also telling stories of powers and goblins – all with a really entertaining sense of humour.

"I got the sent the script and at the time I shooting this show Fires, which was all about the bushfires, which was great but very taxing," Otto explains. "I read this script and it was just so escapist, fun, adventure, and also with such a clever sense of humour, which I really enjoyed."

"It's such a quirky world," Wilde adds.

"I think the humour is kind of embedded in the text and the world, and all the characters are so heightened that I think the humour comes from that."

Other employees at J.W. Wells & Co include Nienke Van Spee, played by New Zealand actor and comedian Rachel House, and Casimir, played by Aussie actor Chris Pang – both characters bring some of the biggest laughs in the film.

"As soon as I arrived, she got my number and texted me like 'I'm Rachel, come meet me, come out'. We were just a great team," Otto says.

"We were a big family," Wilde adds. "[House] and Sam are a hilarious little duo as well, I was like, 'I'm obsessed with you guys.'"

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The Portable Door was filmed in Queensland. For the two local stars (Otto and Wilde) who have spent years working overseas and in Australia, being able to create global productions at home is the icing on the cake.

As well as being a fantastic opportunity to display the talents of Australian actors, crews and creatives, the project also made for a unique sense of camaraderie on set, which almost jumps out of the screen.

It's very obvious while watching that everyone was having a lot of fun.

Otto explains that early in the production, director Jeffrey Walker implemented team bonding in the form of games nights.

"To build that kind of relationship between people, I think that really pays off... He really liked to get people to play together, because that is essentially what we are doing on set," Otto says.

And when you think of it like that, it's really not much different to the playground game she played all those years ago.

The Stan Original Film The Portable Door premieres only on Stan on April 7.

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