Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells – best friends, long-time collaborators and Brooklyn neighbours – are calling me on Zoom on their way to a spa break.
Dolly is driving. Emily, having propped up her mobile phone so they can see me, is in the passenger seat, dipping Vietnamese summer rolls into a pot of chilli sauce.Emily is casual but chic in a pale-brown and white spotted dress, her hair back in a half ponytail, while Dolly is wearing a pink blouse under a cream corduroy pinafore.They are talking – well, yelling – into the phone about their forthcoming project, a BBC adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, when suddenly the call cuts out. ‘Pull into that lane,’ is the last thing I hear Emily say.
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