Beaumont

Beaumont is broad in the chest and economical with words, which on set amounts to the same thing. Directors tend to ask him for less and get more. He keeps his enthusiasms to himself; colleagues have learned to read them in the length of his pauses.

He is Pip’s father, and the two are occasionally booked as a pair. He regards these as his most important engagements, though he would not say so. This spring he had a suit made on Savile Row. It took sixteen weeks. He has since worn it twice, both times to the tailor’s, so that they could see.