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Lily Allen turns on the tears for new Virginia Woolf suffragette film - as singer is spotted on set alongside co-star Jennifer Saunders


Ms Allen, 39, was pictured looking sombre as she filmed scenes for the upcoming adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Night and Day alongside Jennifer Saunders and Jack Whitehall

Set at the turn of the 20th Century, the feminist author's 'unromantic comedy' follows the lives and loves of Mary and her acquaintance, the female astronomer Katharine Hilbery, played by US actress Haley Bennett. Set at the turn of the 20th Century, the feminist author's 'unromantic comedy' follows the lives and loves of Mary and her acquaintance, the female astronomer Katharine Hilbery, played by US actress Haley Bennett (left) Ms Allen may have taken inspiration for the new role from her mother, Alison Owen, who produced the 2015 film Suffragette, starring Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep, which told the story of the fight for women's rights in Britain.

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