spotlight abfab Joanna: Edina is always over-ambitious should
we say, with her costume. (Laughs) She always thinks she’s going to be really thin by tomorrow and never is, so she’s squeezed into appalling outfits. I loved all the celeb cameos in the film, includ- ing Kate Moss who you get to kill. Was there somebody you wanted who you didn’t get? Jennifer: To be honest, no, because you always
end up with the people who are available on the day and who you love and who you know and who are easygoing and happy. We just said “Look, we’re having a party—will you come and be in it?” Lots of people turned up and were incredibly generous. Any other celebrities you would like to have
killed...Maybe in real life? Jennifer: I would never kill anyone, but I’d quite
like to slap Donald Trump. (Laughs) You announced recently that Patsy was transgen- der. Will Edina be far behind? Jennifer: (Laughs) She’s always far behind. Joanna: Patsy’s been a man before, she was a
man in series two. We had a flashback to the 60s where she had a mustache and was dressed in a Sgt. Pepper coat to be like a Beatle. It was very subtle. She took some hormones in the ‘60s because she fancied being a man and then went down to Morocco with Edina, had a very poor operation, and “it” withered away and dropped off after a year. (Laughs) So, she stopped taking the hormones, shaved a bit, and went back to being a woman. Jennifer: In the series, we have a flashback to
the 60s, and we saw Edina as a hippie, and we saw Patsy as a man. It’s always been just something to play with in the kind of Euro-trash idea, too, I think. Joanna: This time she didn’t bother to go the
whole hog, take the hormones and have something stitched on. She’s knows that they drop off after a year, (laughs) so this time she just glued a mustache on and put her hair back and thought she could probably get away with it. After all, she’s only trying to attract a 90-year-old person who can’t see. I don’t think they care—that’s the truth—as it turns out, nor does the woman that she’s marrying. Ab Fab is unique in a lot of ways for me because it was a show about women, written by women. Has the environment changed very much as far as opportunities in the television world go, since you began? Jennifer: I don’t think it has, actually. It makes
me a bit sad if anything, that people seem to want to go back to an old model of normality and sitcoms seem to want to be about ordinary families and
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things that aren’t very interesting. I just think it’s all a bit sad. It’s a shame that life is still depicted in a very straight way, I think. It’s one of the other things that I find so striking about the show. You involved gay and trans characters back when it wasn’t really that PC to do it. Thank you for that. Jennifer: Oh, it’s been our pleasure, actually. We
owe the gay community a huge deal, too, because they’ve helped make the show popular and we love having them as fans. Your gay fans have always adored both of you. I was wondering why each of you think you’ve connected so deeply with the LGBT community? Joanna: I think from Patsy’s point of view, she’s
very easy to copy if you’re a boy and want to dress up as Patsy, because Patsy’s quite tall. (Laughs) You just want to get your good, yellow wig on and lots of lovely, red lips. Most men have very good
legs, much better than mine, so men’s beautiful legs showing in good stockings. Nice pair of high heels, glass of Bolly, cigarette on the go, dark shades on and you’re there. Jennifer: I think as far as the characters go, they
live for each other and they live a life they don’t apologize for. They don’t need men and they don’t need a relationship, in order to have fun and get on in the world. I think it’s about that it doesn’t matter. Be who you can be and want to be.
Proving once again, that these two indomitable women are...Absolutely Fabulous.
Absolutely Fabulous The Movie hits the theaters nationally on Friday, July 22. For more information, go to
facebook.com/AbsolutelyFabulousTheMovie.
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