Joanna Lumley's plea to her agent after tense scene with co-star Jennifer Saunders

Joanna Lumley has revealed the hopeless telephone telephone she made to her cause during the aviator occurrence of Absolutely Fabulous.

Patsy Stone was a career-defining relation for Joanna Lumley - but Joanna, 78, astir discontinue the amusement earlier it adjacent got started.

Writing successful the Daily Mail's Weekend supplement, Vicki Power revealed that during the making of the aviator occurrence successful 1991, Joanna was unnerved and unhappy acting other Jennifer Saunders, who created the amusement and starred alongside her arsenic Edina Monsoon.

In her interrogation with Vicki, Joanna said: "As determination was nary statement of what Patsy was similar successful the script, I didn’t know. And due to the fact that Jennifer was not astatine her astir communicative successful those days, she gave maine nary hint, but she looked sadder and crosser astatine each connection I uttered.

"I thought, “This is simply a dormant loss.” I didn’t cognize what she wanted. I rang my cause and said, 'I don’t deliberation Jennifer wants me, but she’s excessively polite to accidental anything. Do you deliberation you tin get maine retired of this?' My cause said, 'It’s a pilot. Just bash it. It mightiness not instrumentality off.' So I astir wasn’t Patsy!"

But Jennifer and Joanna would go large friends during their clip arsenic co-stars, contempt a shaky start.

Joanna Lumley has antecedently revealed said Jennifer planned to termination disconnected their Absolutely Fabulous characters until she intervened to halt her.

Speaking to My Weekly, Joanna recalled however Jennifer wrote to her and asked, “Shall we conscionable termination them disconnected and hide them?” successful notation to Patsy and Eddie’s fate.

“I wrote backmost the fastest email instrumentality I’ve ever written. I said, ‘No, we’ve promised the world we volition ne'er die!’” she said. “‘And to beryllium honest, if each that vodka and champagne they’ve necked implicit the years hasn’t done the job, past wherefore connected world would their creator beryllium capable to bash it?’"

Elsewhere successful the interview, Lumley recalled filming episodes of the TV bid that included flash forwards of their characters successful aged age.

“We had each kinds of prosthetics made to marque america look truly old,” she said. “Scraggly necks and bald caps nether precise thinning hair, atrocious hands, severely fitting mendacious teeth, small humps connected our backs and our bosoms looked similar bare sandbags.”

“We could hardly locomotion due to the fact that we were laughing truthful much. We went retired connected determination dressed similar that. We drove determination successful a autobus with the unit and the make-up people. Jennifer and I were sat adjacent the beforehand and I was by the window.

“We stopped astatine a postulation airy and an open-topped car pulled up adjacent to us. I grinned astatine the antheral who was driving and I heard him accidental to the pistillate who was sitting adjacent to him, ‘Oh look, it’s Joanna Lumley!’ It was truthful funny.”