Perhaps one of the funniest tropes of across-the-pond comedy is when British and American workplaces are compared.
“And what’s that old line about two cultures divided by a common language?
There’s a lot of that to play with.”
“I’m a British actor who’s lived in America for 20 years.
So I’m familiar with this stuff, and yeah, it’s good stuff,” he said.
Could there be an American version of Ten Percent?
“The interchange between Hollywood and British show business is a well-trodden path.
It’s over a century old,” he told us.
And I was like, ‘Maybe.
I don’t know.’
“Ten Percent” will debut weekly on the BBC starting May 1.
