Do you remember Absolutely Fabulous? It was a series of ’90s created by Jennifers Saunders. The series features Saunders as Edina Monsoon, a heavy-drinking, drug-abusing PR agent who is chasing bizarre fads in a desperate attempt to stay young. Edina is joined in her quest by magazine editor Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley), her best friend and enabler. The series became a cult in and outside the UK with numerous in-jokes and heavy doses of cruel humor.
Now the London fashionistas are back with a bang as the first full-length trailer for Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is unveiled and it’s jam-packed with A-listers. Jennifer and Joanna are joined by a host of fabulous names, as the pursuit of their style idol Kate Moss ends in a soggy disaster.
Joanna Lumley speaking to V magazine revealed that her alter-ego character Patsy Stone is transgender. She said: ‘You go back and pick through it, the number of gay references and ease with which it’s been put into the story, without it being dragged along like a great log of the plot.
‘It’s completely normal that Patsy is transgender.’
Patsy’s gender has often been a talking point on the show. Eddy once refers to a time in 1971 when she went to Morocco and underwent a sex change operation.
Implying that she did in fact start life as a woman, she said she briefly lived life as a man, but ‘her penis fell off.’
The movie is coming to cinemas on the first of July in the UK and you are going to see some of the biggest fashion stars, like Kate Moss, Stella McCartney, and Jean Paul Gaultier, staring in the film version. The movie besides the judgemental humor is also full of chic moments and furry ”notes”.
You can watch the new trailer here.
