After providing the voice of hen Ginger in the 2000 hit “Chicken Run”, Julia Sawalha is “devastated and saddened” that she isn’t being invited back to reprise the role in the upcoming sequel — because, she claims, producers told that she’s too old.
Sawalha, also known for the role of Saffron Monsoon in iconic Britcom “Absolutely Fabulous”, wrote an open letter that she shared on social media, revealing she received an email from her agent informing her she wasn’t being cast in the “Chicken Run” sequel being produced for Netflix. “The reason they gave is that my voice now sounds ‘too old’ and they want a younger actress to reprise the role,” wrote Sawalha, 51. “Usually in these circumstances, an actress would be given the chance to do a
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