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Lumley wades into debate on the casting of queer roles
The Independent
|August 31, 2025
Joanna Lumley has said the world will become “boring beyond disbelief” if actors aren’t allowed to play characters with differing sexualities or nationalities to their own.
The 79-year-old Absolutely Fabulous star stated in a new interview that casting directors were stripping acting away from the craft “because they’re saying, ‘If you’re going to play a lesbian, you’ve got to be a lesbian.”
When asked if she had been put in a box throughout her 50-year-long career, Lumley replied “sort of”, adding: “They’re not going to put me in as a Scottish Highland woman. Even if I could get the accent right, you wouldn’t go to me first. And also, in today’s climate, they would go to somebody who is a Scot.”
Lumely told the i newspaper that she “completely understands” why, highlighting the 1989 film My Left Foot, in which Daniel Day-Lewis plays an Irishman with severe cerebral palsy.
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