'Chicken Run' star Julia Sawalha told her voice sounds 'too old' for sequel, responds with at-home voice test

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upcoming sequel because producers have deemed her too old, she said.“Chicken Run 2 announcement! I have officially been plucked, stuffed & roasted,” Sawalha, 51, captioned a Twitter post Thursday with the hashtag #ageism and her full open letter on the matter.“Last week I was informed out of the blue, via email, through my agent that I would not be cast as Ginger in the Chicken Run sequel,” she wrote in the tweet.

There's trouble in the coop. One of the lead voice stars of Aardman's animated hit Chicken Run — which was released in 2000 and remains the most successful stop-motion animation of all time — has accused producers of ageism for dropping her from the much-anticipated sequel (which The Hollywood Reporter first reported exclusively in 2018).

After providing the voice of hen Ginger in the 2000 hit “Chicken Run”, Julia Sawalha is “devastated and saddened” that she isn’t being invited back to reprise the role in the upcoming sequel — because, she claims, producers told that she’s too old.

statement shared Thursday, Sawalha said that an actress normally would be allowed to do a voice test to prove they can still match the pitch and tone of the original character, but she said she was informed by producers without being given that chance.In response, she recorded her own voice demonstration and shared it with producers and posted it to Vimeo, in which she mimics the lines of her character Ginger from the original “Chicken Run.” You can listen to Sawalha’s demo here.Also Read: Mel

Jamie Lang Julia Sawalha has shared an open letter via her social media profiles expressing disappointment and anger at being left out of Aardman Animations’ upcoming “Chicken Run” sequel, confirmed as a Netflix pickup at June’s Annecy festival. Sawalha voiced Ginger in the Oscar-nominated original, which remains the top grossing stop-motion feature ever, 20 years after its release.“To say that I am devastated and furious would be an understatement,” she said in the letter.

Julia Sawalha has said she is “devastated and furious” as she claimed she has been axed from the upcoming Chicken Run sequel because her voice sounds “too old”.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterBritish actress Julia Sawalha has claimed she is being chopped from the upcoming Chicken Run sequel because her voice now sounds “too old”.In a statement published online, Sawalha said she has been told by producers via her agent that the character of Ginger will be recast with a younger actress for the second movie, and that she hadn’t been given the opportunity to do a voice test to determine her suitability for the role.

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Netflix and Aardman Studios announced today that Mel Gibson wouldn’t be returning to the Chicken Run sequel as originally planned. Fans of the classic animated film know that the Lethal Weapon star voiced one of its central characters, Rocky, but a source who spoke with Newsweek said that studios scrapped the plan.