Why Julie Walters nearly said No to being Mo Mowlam in major TV drama

Julie Walters From Daily Mail By Tim Oglethorpe

Published 29 January 2010

Julie Walters' stock-in-trade is batty eccentrics. There is Mrs Overall, the geriatric tea lady in Acorn Antiques, with her unwavering belief in a macaroon and a nice cuppa as a panacea for all of life's troubles. Then there's the all-singing, all-dancing Rosie in the film version of Mamma Mia!, kitted out in clothes and colours that Julie admits cheerfully 'made me feel daft because I looked it', and Ron Weasley's well-padded mother in the Harry…

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