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Adefope is in LA doing press for Jon Brown's new satirical comedy The Franchise, which follows a film crew working on a big-budget superhero movie that consistently sells out theaters and gets women harassed. Veep creator Armando Iannucci is an executive producer on the film, and it shows in the lightning-fast pace of the dialogue and the density of the jokes. Adefope plays Dag, a new hire on set whose relatively low status on the Hollywood production halls doesn't stop her from chatting up everyone she meets, including A-list stars and executives who clearly aren't used to seeing an assistant as anything more than a holographic wallpaper.
Meeting comedian Lolly Adefope who was born in South London and now lives in Peckham for an interview at London West Hollywood in Los Angeles seems a little too much. We’re seated at a hotel bar so opulent and well-appointed that I momentarily regret wearing shorts. Fortunately, Adefope is also wearing shorts, along with a T-shirt, a green baseball cap, and a pair of Simone Rocha ballet flats. I feel compelled to point out the “British Lady” cocktail, a ginlemon-and-ginger concoction that Adefope smiles at before ordering a much more modest oaty latte.
Adefope has been acting since 2015, but a previous internship role for a comedy production company helped her empathize with Dag, she says. “I was like, ‘Maybe I’ll be behind the camera!’ And then I just felt … not so good. Being in front of the camera is easier.” While that’s almost certainly not true for most of us, Adefope has a gift for making it look easy. Her role as Fran on Hulu’s Shrill, led to some of the best lines in recent TV memory. (“I don’t apologize to white people,” Fran tells Bryant’s on-screen boyfriend at one point.) It also offers an all-too-rare onscreen example of a black, queer female character who’s comfortable in her own skin or at least comfortable enough to smoke a bowl and sing karaoke alone in front of strangers. Adefope is best known to people through Fran, she told me, and she still keeps in close touch with Bryant: “Having that relationship with Aidy really makes reporting less stressful.”
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