Joanna Lumley
- 78 years old
- English
- Actor and writer
Press clippings Page 10
'Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie': film review
An endearing shambles, much like the original show.
Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter, 29th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie - review
British sitcoms face particular challenges when they attempt the big screen, since the charm of our comedy is that it tends to be small scale, low-budget and full of interestingly unglamorous people. Ab Fab largely escapes that parochial feel thanks to its implausibly wealthy fashion setting, yet this chaotic stumble onto the big screen somehow still comes close to disaster.
Helen O'Hara, Empire, 29th June 2016Benedict Cumberbatch turned down a role in Ab Fab movie
The Sherlock star was too busy to join Patsy and Eddie's big screen caper, reveals Joanna Lumley, but his mum Wanda Ventham cameos instead.
Radio Times, 28th June 2016On the set of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Patsy and Edina are back on the Bolly. But with cameos from Kate Moss, Gaultier and Alexa Chung, have they got too cosy with the world they're satirising?
Hannah Marriott, The Guardian, 28th June 2016Graham Norton is the master of pulling in the big guests and treating them to his charm, irreverence and sauce. This week he's joined by the inimitable Patsy and Edina (Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders) for the release of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie. Australian fun-bomb Rebel Wilson completes a lineup of witty women. There's also audience participation and music from sinewy rock cockroach Iggy Pop.
Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 24th June 2016Joanna Lumley: political correctness makes comedy hard
People take offence at the smallest things, which used to be just funny.
Daniel Welsh, The Huffington Post, 24th June 2016Patsy's best one-liners
To gird our loins for the return of PR's most disruptive trailblazers, we're warming up by a roll call of Patsy's most zinging one-liners.
Caroline Frost, The Huffington Post, 13th June 201635 life lessons learned from Eddy and Patsy
We look at the life lessons the pair have taught us since they first drunkenly stumbled into our lives back in 1992...
Ash Percival, The Huffington Post, 13th June 2016Joanna Lumley reveals that Patsy is transgender
"It's completely normal that Patsy is transgender."
Paul Jones, Radio Times, 4th June 2016Interview: Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley
Fashion people aren't famed for having a sense of humor about their personal lives, which makes the success of Absolutely Fabulous in haute circles something of an enigma.
Jack Sunnucks, V Magazine, 31st May 2016