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 Well, I`m lucky because, you see, I`ll probably bounce back from this role. But I think our humour is exactly the same today. Only, we`ve made rules now. We`ve said we are not going to do prosthetic make-up scenes, because when they take it off half your face comes off.
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You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They`re a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.
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I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I`m watching.
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I remember when the first police scary video thing came out, and you thought, wow, ooh, look at this, come and look, come and look. And now it`s on every channel.
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Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it`s just hilarious. I would miss that.
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Lacroix has been fantastic. He`s very nice. He gets the joke, and I think that`s a good thing.
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We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn`t involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.
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No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we`d just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.
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I`d much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I`d rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.
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There were a lot of areas we didn`t cover that I`m hoping to cover if we do some specials. One is to see more of Patsy`s home and her home life, which is just the saddest thing.
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I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I`m going to look that up. And I`ve become that person - I`ve become the reference-book person.
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They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don`t actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.
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We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it.
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The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn`t exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.
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I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you`ve soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I`d say, look, this is the good thing, and you can`t compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.
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Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don`t really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close.
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Trivia
The Eurythmics' songs 'Jennifer', (from the album Sweet Dreams are made of this), and 'Adrian' (from the album Be yourself tonight)are dedicated to her and her husband.
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Has three daughters: Eleanor, Beatrice and Freya Edmondson.
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The comedy partner of Dawn French
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Was revealed that she and partner Dawn French declined Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) honors "for services to comedy drama" in 2001. [December 2003]
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Won a People's Choice Award for "Favorite Movie Villain" for playing the wicked Fairy Godmother in Shrek 2 (2004) (January 2005)
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Can do a very accurate impression of Irish actress Amanda Burton and used it in "Witless Silence", a "French and Saunders" (1987) spoof of Burton's TV series "Silent Witness" (1996).
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The name of her character, Edina Monsoon, on "Absolutely Fabulous" (1992) is a play on the name "Eddie Monsoon," which in turn is a play on her husband, Adrian Edmondson's surname that he has used as a character name in comedy performances.
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Presented Seth Lakeman with the Folk Singer Of The Year award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2007.
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