Yours Magazine Australia — January 04, 2018

COVER STORY

“The relationship between us is

very intense, though, what with ne

losing her earlier.”

Julie and Grant, who wed in 199

New York, spend most of their tim

their Sussex farm.

“He works it and is very good at

she says. “The cows love him. He c

to them and they call back. We ha

40 cattle and 300 sheep and a few

700 chickens, turkeys. It’s hard wo

But Julie loves that time away fr

the limelight and usually eschews

carpets unless she’s up for an awar

“There are only so many times y

want to appear in theDaily

Maillooking terrible,” she quips.

Not that she has much time

for partying – she’s too busy

working, still opting for work

that will be a “proper” challenge,

potentially fun and lucrative.

“Hopefully still that way round,”

she explains.

While at first she wasn’t sure

about making a sequel to

Mamma Mia, the script w

her over. “It made me cry

she says. Yet the movie

is, of course, still a

comedy – the niche in

which Julie has most

firmly made her mark,

even if it isn’t always

held in as high esteem

as serious drama. “It’s

early

9 7in

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tit,”

calls

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pigs,

ork.”

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red

d.

ou

ridiculous,”she says. “You can’tgo

todrama school andlearn tobe

a comedian;it ’s ‘ in’people.”

Julie sometimes dreams of

spending her time gardening,

travelling and writing (she’s penned

the novelMagggie’s Treeand her

biographyThat’s Another Story).But

she’s still havingwaytoo much fun to

callitadayyet. “[Someone] once said

to me,,‘You really love acting, don’t

you?’He sounded surprised and

I was surprised, too,” says Julie.

“But then I thought,YYeah,

Idolove it.Seeyou in

another 15years!”•

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want to appear in theDaily

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LAUGH

LINES

Julie and

late friend

Victoria

Wood

8

won

y,”

Paddington author

Michael Bond saw a bear

on a shelf on Christmas

Eve, took it home for his

wife and began

writing...

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