Sally Lindsay: 'Nick Park's a genius' (VIDEO)

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Sally Lindsay: 'Nick Park's a genius' (VIDEO)
Sally Lindsay: 'Nick Park's a genius' (VIDEO) (Image credit: Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment)

Former Coronation Street star Sally Lindsay hailed Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park as a 'genius' and said she'd work with him again 'in a heartbeat'. Sally voiced the ill-fated character Piella in A Matter of Loaf and Death last Christmas and said it was an 'amazing, but intense' experience. "It came out of the blue, because Nick heard me on the radio, he heard my voice and he'd been looking for six months for Piella... He only watches films, so he said, 'Has that girl done any acting?' "My agent went, 'Yeah, a bit...'" Watch Sally Lindsay at the British Soap Awards

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.