Speaking to Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett OBE, the Absolutely Fabulous star said: 'What it was, was when Motherland was running and such a huge success, they had a scene where Lucy Punch's character, Amanda, had tea with her mother or something, so I was, it was an afternoon, you go, ''Yeah, be her mother.''.
Joanna made the comparison while discussing her role as the 'snooty' mother Felicity (pictured) in Amandaland, where Lucy Punch plays her titular on-screen daughter.
The actress, 78, has earned critical acclaim for a string of roles, but in a new interview on the Dish Podcast, revealed that she's starting to land more parts as 'vicious, horrible and snobby' family matriarchs in the latter stages of her career.
Joanna made the comparison while discussing her role as the 'snooty' mother Felicity in Amandaland, where Lucy Punch plays her titular on-screen daughter.
Joanna Lumley has revealed she 'knows she's always going to be cast as grannies and aunts now' due to her age, as she appeared on the latest episode of the Dish podcast.
