Clarissa

“I made food friends with Clarissa Wei after she posted a photo of the potstickers she made with a Chinese chef,” says Yang, who couldn’t resist reaching out to the cookbook author and L.A.

Clarissa Hahn, economist at Oxford Economics, says this means that the initial impact of price rises will be on US consumers, as American firms are likely to pass on the extra costs to their customers.

When Clarissa lobs a flirtatious invitation across the table to George, asking when she’ll get to take his renowned polygraph test, Soderbergh, Koepp and Abela are all working at the top of their games.

Soderbergh lingers on Abela’s smirk, letting his audience wonder if she knows what George is up to; Koepp’s dialogue supplies the character with a spy’s intuition that belies the greenness of Clarissa’s age; and Abela delivers her question with a sparkle in her eye that exudes sex as much as it suggests danger.

Later, he tells Clarissa that the key to his marriage is that “I watch her and she watches me — and I will protect her no matter what.”