Sweetie, darling, the Absolutely Fabulous movie is happening: cheers?
I’ve mentioned before my love of all things Absolutely Fabulous. It’s because I’m a ‘90s girl, I know. You have to understand something: before Sex & the City, before the rise of the British drama, before the Real Housewives and before everyone got so politically correct, Absolutely Fabulous was IT. It was the best. It was always about two crazy women behaving badly and having a fabulous time together. Patsy Stone is my spirit animal. Edina Monsoon is everything. I even love Saffy!!! And Bubble too, although a little Bubble goes a long way. Anyway, a few years ago Jennifer Saunders announced that she would be writing an AbFab movie, sweetie darling LET ME IN. And now it’s really happening!!!
Fox Searchlight Pictures and BBC Films have released the first image from comedy “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie,” which has started to shoot in the U.K. and the South of France for seven weeks. The film will be released next year.
The film reunites Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley as Edina and Patsy, along with the rest of the original cast, which includes Julia Sawalha as Saffy, Jane Horrocks as Bubble and June Whitfield as Mother.
In the movie, which is adapted from the BBC TV series, Edina and Patsy are still living the high life: shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London’s trendiest hotspots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber-fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm, and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent, and live a life of luxury forever.
The Riviera? OMG. I hope they get some good celebrity cameos, like… Patsy doing lines with Leo (Joanna Lumley does know Leo – they worked together on The Wolf of Wall Street!!). Or maybe Edina willingly taking some GHB and passing out on a mogul’s yacht. Something like that. It will be epic. I hope Saffy gets sold off to a sheik.
They’re also saying the whole gang will be coming back, including Julia Sawalha as Saffy, Jane Horrocks as Bubble and June Whitfield as Edina’s mum. Saunders also released a statement: “I am thrilled and excited to finally start filming. We are all taking our medication and hoping for the best.” Medication, darling? Just pop a Xanex, smoke a joint, drink 10 bottles of wine and then pee it out in the morning.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet, the BBC.
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