One look at Jennifer Saunders’ Twitter account will tell you she is no fan of our current government, but she does have a preference when it comes to the next Tory leader and therefore our prime minister. “I’m hoping it’s Liz Truss, for comedy reasons,” says the creator of Absolutely Fabulous and one half of sketch-comedy legends French and Saunders. “She is just a very funny person. She has so many faces.”
Saunders, 64, is speaking to me over Zoom from her dressing room at Hammersmith’s Eventim Apollo, where she’s playing the Mother Superior in Sister Act, the musical based on the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg film. The show was supposed to happen in 2020, with Saunders’ old pal Goldberg reprising her role as a gangster’s moll hiding out in a convent. But Covid changed everything and now she’s playing opposite singer Beverley Knight and a cast of stage musical stalwarts.
