Dame Julie Walters has been forced to leave the cast of the forthcoming Channel 4 drama Truelove, due to ill health.
The veteran star of stage and screen, 73, was diagnosed with advanced bowel cancer in 2018.
In 2020, she gave an interview in which she revealed that she had got the all-clear and said that she felt like a “different person” after having cancer.
Walters’ role as Phil in the drama Truelove was set to be her return to TV after a seven-year hiatus (she was last seen in the acclaimed 2016 Channel 4 drama National Treasure).
Walters will be replaced on the show by Lindsay Duncan, who now stars opposite The Wire’s Clarke Peters.
The pair play former teenage sweethearts who reunite at a friend’s funeral after many years, and make a pact to help each other experience dignified deaths, rather than slow declines.
Filming on Truelove was initially last year...
The veteran star of stage and screen, 73, was diagnosed with advanced bowel cancer in 2018.
In 2020, she gave an interview in which she revealed that she had got the all-clear and said that she felt like a “different person” after having cancer.
Walters’ role as Phil in the drama Truelove was set to be her return to TV after a seven-year hiatus (she was last seen in the acclaimed 2016 Channel 4 drama National Treasure).
Walters will be replaced on the show by Lindsay Duncan, who now stars opposite The Wire’s Clarke Peters.
The pair play former teenage sweethearts who reunite at a friend’s funeral after many years, and make a pact to help each other experience dignified deaths, rather than slow declines.
Filming on Truelove was initially last year...
- 3/2/2023
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
Julie Walters is opening up about her decision to keep her daughter in the dark regarding her recent battle with cancer.
The 69-year-old British actress revealed in a new interview with The Daily Telegraph that she did not inform her 31-year-old daughter Maisie when she was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2018.
“I couldn’t bear the thought of everyone worrying, particularly my daughter,” the Mamma Mia! star said.
Walters recalled that at the time, she told Maisie she needed to have her appendix removed because she “couldn’t say the word ‘cancer’ to her.” Maisie simply responded, “Okay, mum,” Walters said.
The 69-year-old British actress revealed in a new interview with The Daily Telegraph that she did not inform her 31-year-old daughter Maisie when she was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2018.
“I couldn’t bear the thought of everyone worrying, particularly my daughter,” the Mamma Mia! star said.
Walters recalled that at the time, she told Maisie she needed to have her appendix removed because she “couldn’t say the word ‘cancer’ to her.” Maisie simply responded, “Okay, mum,” Walters said.
- 4/6/2020
- by Eric Todisco
- PEOPLE.com
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