![]() ![]() 'The word on the grapevine is that it's going to be a musical. A feature film version is planned for next spring. This, then, is what a real mother should be: joyless, and always in the kitchen. Sawalha is still best known as Saffy, Edina's daughter in Absolutely Fabulous. Like her co-star Jane Horrocks, she reveals it was. This is the original failure of Eddy (Saunders) she cannot look after her own daughter Saffron (Julia Sawalha), who becomes a dour prig. Julia Sawalha admits she too hesitated before agreeing to take the role of Saffy in the big screen version of ‘Absolutely Fabulous’. ![]() (French appeared in only one episode of Ab Fab, and instead graduated to The Vicar of Dibley, a more genial - though equally self-deceptive - fantasy.) The running gag, and it is as old as Plautus is: a mother is parented by her child, who is more mature than she is. Failure is not a bad subject for comedy - it is actually one of the best, as Edmund Blackadder and Alan Partridge and David Brent tell us - but Absolutely Fabulous is too unsophisticated to be funny, and comedy without wit is spite.Ībsolutely Fabulous is based on a single sketch from Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders who were, then, the only female sketch double act on TV. This Morning 2.29M subscribers 202K views 6 years ago Subscribe now for more Broadcast on With Absolutely Fabulous making its big screen debut, Julia. Julia Sawalha (born 9 September 1968 in Wandsworth, London, England) is an English actress well known for her role as Saffron Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous. I watched it obediently in the 1990s - mostly for the clothes - and realise now, with more jaded eyes, that I was invited to laugh only at female failure. 04:03pm BST Julia Sawalha admits she too hesitated before agreeing to take the role of Saffy in the big screen version of ‘Absolutely Fabulous’. Absolutely Fabulous, which is about to make its cinema debut, is a comedy about women being useless. ![]()
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