Joanna Lumley says it’s fashionable for ‘pathetic’ women to ‘play the victim’ over sexism | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
Joanna Lumley, 76, claimed that the rise in victims of sexism is just the result of a world gone mad. In a shocking new interview, the British icon also declared that the UK hates new ideas.
Best known for her role in the nineties sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, Joanna has rarely been quiet about her views on society in the modern world.
Earlier this year she claimed her breakthrough series Absolutely Fabulous would be deemed too offensive to be aired today.
Now, she has also struck out against the rising opposition to sexism as she claimed women in her era simply handled it better.
In a recent profile with Prospect Magazine, Joanna said women in the sixties “were a lot tougher”.
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She previously claimed she spent the first decade of her career penniless and living hand to mouth until she was 32.
Only by 1979 did she get her first starring role in Sapphire & Steel and managed to pay off her overdrafts.
In her recent interview, the now-millionaire actress also recalled the proposed Thames Garden Bridge, of which she was one of the main advocates.
The project was ultimately scrapped and Joanna lamented: “Our country hates new ideas. It really hates them.”
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At the Henley Literature Festival last year, the Absolutely Fabulous star also weighed in on cancel culture and political correctness, noting that the nineties sitcom would not make it past modern standards.
She shared: “You can’t even joke about a mother-in-law anymore. So I don’t think we could do it again.
“Some of Edina’s language and some of her attitudes to things, I mean they were just scandalous. You couldn’t get away with it!”
Joanna also sympathised with modern comics, saying she understood how “difficult” it must be for them.
More recently, Joanna also shared her sympathies with the royal family in light of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s documentary.
She said on the Jeremy Vine Show that, while she had refused to watch their infamous interview with Oprah Winfrey, she had to watch their series.
Joanna commented: “You can’t avoid it because everybody’s talking about it, it’s on all the news and in all the papers.
“I feel terribly sorry about the whole thing. It did seem to me a bit one-sided because everybody knows that the Royal Family can’t really answer back.”
