Jerry Guildencrantz

Jerry Guildencrantz drifts through the offices of Perfect Curve, the PR agency circling the BBC's endless rebrand meetings, as one of Siobhan Sharpe's junior staffers. He says little, watches everything, and seems permanently absorbed in a screen, a quiet fixture amid the agency's torrent of buzzwords and busywork.

W1A thrives on background noise, and Jerry is one of its best jokes without a punchline: a young employee whose silence becomes funnier the longer meetings drag on around him. Ivan Gonzalez plays him with a deadpan stillness that mocks corporate performativity simply by refusing to perform, letting absurdity build in the gaps he leaves unfilled.