{"id":13006,"date":"2026-07-03T12:31:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/03\/suddenly-i-was-a-celebrity-i-didnt-want-to-be-sue-johnston-on-fame-loneliness-and-her-new-robot-pal-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:31:46","slug":"suddenly-i-was-a-celebrity-i-didnt-want-to-be-sue-johnston-on-fame-loneliness-and-her-new-robot-pal-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/03\/suddenly-i-was-a-celebrity-i-didnt-want-to-be-sue-johnston-on-fame-loneliness-and-her-new-robot-pal-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Suddenly I was a celebrity. I didn\u2019t want to be!\u2019 Sue Johnston on fame, loneliness and her new robot pal Culture | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s been a soap icon, a Royle and even a zombie pensioner. Now the actor is starring in Ann Droid, Diane Morgan\u2019s madcap comedy about an elderly woman and her cybernetic companion<\/p>\n<p>Sue Johnston is the kind of actor who usually can\u2019t stand seeing herself on screen, but for Ann Droid she made an exception. The new sitcom by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/diane-morgan\">Diane Morgan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2022\/mar\/08\/frayed-sarah-kendall-standup\">Sarah Kendall<\/a> stars the 82-year-old as a recent widow whose son hires a humanoid robot called Linda (played with delightful uncanniness by Morgan herself) to assist her after he moves out. The results are initially farcical: Linda is a dated \u2013 and therefore relatively cheap \u2013 model who lacks the intelligence of newer variants and attempts to cheer people up by blasting Cotton Eye Joe at them. Yet the pair soon become inseparable. Johnston describes the show as \u201crich with humour and love\u201d. When she watched it back, she found it so absorbing that \u201cI forgot it was me \u2013 I very rarely do that and\u00a0I just enjoyed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ann Droid is worth raving about on its own terms \u2013 it\u2019s rambunctiously funny and exceptionally poignant \u2013 but it is clear Johnston\u2019s enthusiasm stems from somewhere else too. \u201cI\u2019m proud of Diane and I just want it to work for <em>her<\/em>,\u201d she says with feeling. The pair met on the set of the Sky sitcom Rovers before Morgan made it big with Philomena Cunk and Motherland and kept in touch. \u201cWhich you don\u2019t with everyone. We\u2019re both silly about our dogs; we just made a connection.\u201d She was thrilled to reunite. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot about Diane that reminds me of Caroline Aherne. They\u2019ve got that northern, straight-face, cut-through humour. 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