deadpan

“I think because he knew he was going to be filming dinner scenes, it was making him anxious,” Blanchett deadpans.

That semi-fanciful film was a deadpan spin on the ingrained misogyny that conveniently tags a steely, orphaned 9-year-old village girl as a sorceress.

“I blame Trav,” Freeman deadpanned, loud enough for a Smith to hear.

There are neighborhoods with the deadpan names Brown, Gray and Beige.

This is all a function of good writing and underplayed acting; the mood is largely deadpan.