Amandaland’s Lucy Punch, 47, says she isn’t tempted by plastic surgery as comedy actors
Amandaland’s Lucy Punch has said that she isn’t tempted by plastic surgery as comedy actors ‘need humanity in their face’.
The actress, 47, – who lives in LA with her family – plays the titular character of Amanda in the BBC show which will soon air its Christmas special.
Amandaland focuses on Lucy’s story and is a follow up from Motherland which aired from 2016 to 2022.
Now Lucy has opened up about the rising rates of plastic surgery and tweakments among celebrities and says a lot of people in Hollywood now look ‘slightly AI’.
She told The Sunday Times: ‘I don’t do anything. Truthfully, the past few years, I haven’t been working as much, and I haven’t felt like I could afford to spend money on stuff on my face.’
Lucy also described a recent outing in Los Angeles with her pals as they headed to a bar together.
Amandaland’s Lucy Punch has said that she isn’t tempted by plastic surgery as comedy actors ‘need humanity in their face’
The actress, 47, – who lives in LA with her family – plays the titular character of Amanda in the BBC show which will soon air its Christmas special
She said of the other women she saw there: ‘The women were all so gorgeous, they did look beautiful. It’s not that you don’t think they’re beautiful. But it’s almost slightly AI. Me and my girlfriends just looked more human.
‘I understand for, you know, movie stars there’s a huge pressure, but I think that you need to have some humanity in your face. And that’s really important for a character or comedy actor. I can’t do anything to my face because I feel like that’s not what’s got me jobs.’
The interview comes after just last week the BBC dropped the first trailer for the highly-anticipated Amandaland Christmas special.
British comedy series Amandaland hit our screens on BBC One back in February.
Amandaland follows the life of a recently divorced mum called Amanda who is trying to juggle looking after her children, a new relationship and friendships with the parents at her kid’s school.
‘Life after Motherland. Downsizing, facing the horror of modern teens – not even an alpha mum can do it alone. And then there’s her mother… Starring Lucy Punch and Joanna Lumley,’ BBC iPlayer’s synopsis reads.
Fans were over the moon when it was revealed in October that there would be a festive special involving Amanda Hughes (Lucy Punch), her mum Felicity Sanderson (Joanna Lumley) and Anne Flynn (Philippa Dunne).
Now Lucy has opened up about the rising rates of plastic surgery and tweakments among celebrities and says a lot of people in Hollywood now look ‘slightly AI’
The first look sees Amanda, her family and pals Mal (Samuel Anderson) and Anne head over to aunt Joan’s (Jennifer Saunders) country house.
Joan is over the moon to see Amanda, but Amanda’s mum Felicity doesn’t appear to be that excited to see her.
In one clip, Amanda can be seen giving her aunt a gift, but a shocked Anne asks her: ‘Didn’t I just gift you that?’
Amanda simply replies: ‘Yes.’
In another scene Anne can be seen telling Mal: ‘I really think Amanda deserves to know.’
She pops her head around the corner of the door and asks: ‘What do I deserve to know?’
Back in October, speaking on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show, Joanna said: ‘I’m just about to start another series of Amandaland which was the spin-off from Motherland, which was a gorgeous, wild success.
‘Clever, clever Lucy Punch. We’re just about to start seven more episodes and one is a Christmas special for this year.’
Amandaland is written by Holly Walsh, Helen Serafinowicz, Barunka O’Shaughnessy and Laurence Rickard.
The show is directed by Simon Bird and Alyssa McClelland.
The comedy is a spin-off of popular sitcom Motherland, which ran 19 episodes across three seasons between 2016 and 2022.
Motherland was created and written by Sharon Horgan, Graham Linehan, Helen Serafinowicz and Holly Walsh.
The Amandaland Christmas Special will air on Christmas Day at 9:15pm on BBC One and iPlayer
It followed the lives of a group of parents whose children all attended the same school.
Anna Maxwell Martin played protagonist Julia Johnstone, Diane Morgan played Liz, Paul Ready played Kevin Brady and Tanya Moodie played Meg.
Since the first series aired back in January, Amandaland has averaged 6.4million views and has become the BBC’s second biggest comedy launch.
The Amandaland Christmas Special will air on Christmas Day at 9:15pm on BBC One and iPlayer.