Robert Lindsay has revealed he struggles to recognise his Hollywood friends because of the amount of Botox they’ve had.
Starring in the new Channel 4 drama series Generation Z alongside Sue Johnston, 80, and Anita Dobson, 75, the trio insisted that they have never been tempted to reverse the clock with a little plastic surgery.
Speaking to this week’s Radio Times, Lindsay said: ‘I’ve just come back from LA. I worked there in the 80s, and I was catching up with some very old friends and I didn’t recognise any of them. I’m serious. I was completely shocked.’
Agreeing, Sue Johnston said: ‘I think it’s just sad, don’t you?
‘I’m very proud of the three of us. We’ve gone with the flow, got our wrinkles and let me tell you we are growing old quite disgracefully.’
Robert Lindsay has revealed he struggles to recognise his Hollywood friends because of the amount of Botox they’ve had (pictured in 2022)
‘I was talking to an agent yesterday who gets lots of requests from casting directors saying they don’t want anybody who’s had any work done,’ said Dobson.
‘If they were playing creatures like Sue and I are playing they’d say, “Oh, no, I’ve just had Botox all over and my chin done and my nose done and I don’t really want to cover it up”.’
The new series is about a quiet, sleepy town that is soon overran by the apocalypse when an army convoy overturns outside a care home causing a chemical leak with some very deadly consequences.
A group of teenagers are caught up in the virus when one of the gang’s grandmothers becomes infected and attacks her.
Mr Lindsay is father to sons Samuel, 24, and James, 21, who he shares with wife Rosemarie Ford, a famous presenter and dancer.
He also shares his daughter Sydney, 36, with actress Diane Weston, who has become an actress herself.
The My Family actor, who plays the character Morgan, said he took the gig because his kids liked the script.
‘Yeah, although it was very mysterious offer,’ he said.
Speaking to this week’s Radio Times , Lindsay said: ‘I’ve just come back from LA and I was catching up with some very old friends and I didn’t recognise any of them. I’m serious’ (pictured in 2020)
He is starring in the new Channel 4 drama series Generation Z alongside Sue Johnston, 80, and Anita Dobson , 75, and the trio insisted that they have never been tempted to reverse the clock with a little plastic surgery
He continued: ‘My kids responded to the script far better than I did initially, because they suffered very badly during Covid, during their A levels and going to university. It was really tough on them.
‘I had a body part – a torso with bits missing and a cut through the stomach – made for a certain sequence.
‘After the shoot, the producers rang me and asked if I wanted it, or else they were going to throw it away. I said, “Why not?”
They delivered it in a box, which my wife and my young son opened, probably thinking it was a bottle of champagne or something. I heard the scream from them downstairs.’
