Meeting actor and comedian Lolly Adefope —who was born in South London and now lives in Peckham—for an interview at the London West Hollywood in Los Angeles feels almost too on the nose. We take a seat in a hotel bar so plush and well-appointed that I momentarily regret wearing shorts. Luckily, Adefope is wearing shorts too, along with a T-shirt, a green baseball cap and a pair of Simone Rocha ballerina sneakers .
I feel compelled to point out the “British Lady” cocktail, a gin-lemon-and-ginger concoction that Adefope smiles at before ordering a far more demure oat-based coffee. Adefope is in L.A.
to do press for Jon Brown's new satirical comedy The Franchise , which follows a film crew working on the kind of big-budget superhero film that reliably sells out theaters and gets women harassed. Veep creator Armando Iannucci is executive-producing the series, and it shows in the rat-a-tat-tat pace of the dialogue and the density of jokes. Adefope plays Dag, a new on-set hire whose relative lowness on the storied Hollywood-production totem pole doesn't dissuade her from chatting cheerfully with everyone she meets, including A-list stars and executives who are clearly unused to seeing assistants as anything other than a kind of three-dimensional wallpaper.
Adefope has been acting since 2015, but a previous role as an intern for a comedy production company helped her relate to Dag, she says. “I was like, ‘Maybe I’ll be behind the camera!' And then I was just sort of..
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