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Reading In

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 This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop.
Sometimes you have a character answering a telephone call, with another character speaking to them on the other end. In order for the first actor to be able to respond effectively, someone will usually stand off behind the camera, "reading in" the lines.
Most of the time this is a member of the crew, but there are exceptions, where the second actor does it.
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 Heroes: Sendhil Ramamurthy had to play Mohinder making many, many phone calls from his apartment, but the audience never hears the other side of the conversation. This happened so often that when Mohinder met with Nathan Petrelli in an episode, someone remarked on the commentary, "Hey! Sendhil's in a scene with another human being!"
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It's a major Split Screen user and almost always has the other person present.
In "Blink", the actors actually played off a pre-recorded video clip.
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 UHF: George (Weird Al Yankovic) leaves a hilariously pleading apology on his girlfriend's answering machine. This was accomplished by having Al stand just out of shot and yell his lines while the girl reacted.
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 Escape from the Planet of the Apes: During the court scene, Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter did their bits as apes Cornelius and Zira, then had the makeup/prosthetics removed before shooting the opposite angle shots of the attorneys questioning them; they read in their parts. After McDowell saw the dailies he realized that he spoke differently and thus gave a different performance without the prosthetics, so from then on he didn't take off the makeup until the day's shooting was complete.
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 M*A*S*H: The series, did a variation with B.J. Hunnicutt. Every time he was on the phone with his wife, Peg, Mike Farrell was actually talking on a working phone with his then-wife, Judy.
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 Doctor Who: In "Silence in the Library", David Tennant was present for the filming of a scene involving The Girl and read in his lines.
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 Firefly: In "Objects in Space", Summer Glau read her lines as "Serenity" just offstage.
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