Ronni Ancona

Ancona’s Nigella Lawson in The Big Impression draws on the cook’s relaxed pacing, attention to the camera and deliberate physical manner. She studied those movements as part of finding a coherent comic version of the television persona. Start with that character to see how a look or a pause can establish the subject before a distinctive phrase does. The result is a heightened reading of a familiar screen presentation, not a claim that the exaggerated sketch reveals the person’s private behaviour.