But, of course, Hilary Mantel isn’t really into easy. She and actor Ben Miles had to figure out their newest Thomas Cromwell adaptation: “You can only do so much on Zoom, Mantel said, ‘because every line has to find its precise form for the next line to play off it. You have to have precision. We would pass our drafts to and fro, getting them to work and then polish them up line by line. We had to be good clerks to each other.'” – The Guardian (UK)