If you’ve ever watched excruciatingly funny workplace satires W1A or Twenty Twelve, you’ll know that timing is key when it comes to writer-creator John Morton’s trademark quick fire dialogue, where no one says quite what they think, and a slight pause can have hundreds of potential meanings.
Spare a thought, then, for Lydia Leonard and Prasanna Puwanarajah, who auditioned for Ten Percent, Morton’s London-set remake of the hit French comedy Call My Agent!, on Zoom, subject to the vagaries of “Lydia’s terrible broadband connection”, as the latter puts it. “We auditioned together during that second wave [of the coronavirus pandemic] when we were locked down – that da-da-da of the dialogue on a Zoom delay was kind of painful,” Leonard explains.
