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    Brand on the run

    Oct 11, 2020 3 minutes
    by RUSSELL BAILLIE

    Jo Brand wrote the novel The More You Ignore Me. Then she wrote the film of the novel. Now she’s starring in it, slightly. Enough to get on the poster, but not enough, possibly, for fans of the television comedies she’s written and starred in — Getting On (set in a geriatric ward) and Damned (in a social services department). But enough for her.

    “Just to say, I actually did not force myself into the film,” she says with a laugh down the line from London, where it’s just gone 7am and

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