There's trouble in the coop. One of the lead voice stars of Aardman's animated hit Chicken Run — which was released in 2000 and remains the most successful stop-motion animation of all time — has accused producers of ageism for dropping her from the much-anticipated sequel (which The Hollywood Reporter first reported exclusively in 2018).
Julia Sawalha, who voiced Ginger in the original film, has published an open letter on social media — using the hashtag "#ageism — in which she says was "devastated and saddened" to be told via an email from her agent that she would not be cast in the follow up film, which Netflix recently announced it had picked up. "The reason they gave is that my voice now sounds ‘too old’ and they want a younger.
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