Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Additional characters include Edina's overly serious daughter Saffron (Sawalha), her daffy mother (Whitfield) and her even daffier assistant Bubble (Horrocks). Deadline Hollywood broke the story in November 2011 that Saunders planned to begin writing a film version of the series in 2012. The movie would begin with Edina and Patsy waking up hungover after a party on an oligarch's yacht, with everyone else gone and the boat somewhere the middle of the ocean. Saunders later said that she hoped to shoot the film on the French Riviera. In March 2012, Saunders confirmed that she was working on the script. She
Lill Roughley six comedy plays for television, and again in 1992's "Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast". Also in 1992 she played Alice in the first series of "Mulberry". In the following years Roughley appeared in "Minder", "A Touch of Frost", the film "Brassed Off", "Hetty Wainthropp Investigates", "Dinnerladies" (another collaboration with Victoria Wood), "Absolutely Fabulous" (in the 2001 episode of the series, called "Small Openings", as the "actress" portraying Edina in the play written by Saffron, based on her own life) and "Heartbeat". Roughley played Lorraine Thomson in one episode of "Coronation Street", which aired on 17 May 1996. She also played