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Lockdown story time: Roald Dahl with Streep, Cumberbatch, Blanchett and more
    2020-05-21  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

STUCK at home with the kids? Meryl Streep, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Cate Blanchett may be able to help.

Oscar-winning New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi has lined up some of his Hollywood friends by videolink from their living rooms for a coronavirus lockdown charity reading of Roald Dahl’s classic “James and the Giant Peach.”

Waititi, director of “Jojo Rabbit” and “Thor: Ragnarok,” reads the British author’s 1961 children’s novel while his friends chime in, voicing characters and having fun.

Cynthia Erivo, Beanie Feldstein, Josh Gad, Mindy Kaling, Gordon Ramsay, Eddie Redmayne, Olivia Wilde, Ruth Wilson and Archie Yates are among the cast.

In trailers released Monday, Chris Hemsworth boasts of his “loveliness” to his sceptical brother, “The Hunger Games” star Liam, in what is billed as their first performance together.

Streep’s silly voices are among the highlights, earning a laugh from Cumberbatch.

The novel will be read in 10 instalments, with the first two available from Monday on the Roald Dahl YouTube channel. Funds raised will go to Partners in Health, a charity for maternal health in Sierra Leone. (SD-Agencies)

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