British screen legend Jenny Agutter recalls childhood trip to Cameron Highlands, ‘delicious’ sago gula Melaka dessert (VIDEO)

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“We lived in Singapore, I lived in that heat, with a different culture, I enjoyed all those things but Cameron Highlands was rather magical because it was jungly and exotic,” Jenny Agutter said.

The beloved British screen icon plays Sister Julienne in the acclaimed BBC series ‘Call The Midwife’. — Picture courtesy of BBC Studios

Agutter, who lived in Singapore as a young girl said her childhood trip to Cameron Highlands was magical and she would love to go back. — Picture courtesy of BBC Studiosor love fruit to locals that grows abundantly in Cameron’s cool climate. Having assumed the role of the sister-in-charge at Nonnatus House for the past 10 seasons, Agutter loves playing the calm, moral beacon to a group of young nurses, whom she says is nothing like herself.“She has tolerance, great enjoyment of people and she’s a very practical person, she’s someone who takes care of stuff as opposed to trying to change things.

Season 10 takes place in 1966, a testing time for the midwives and Sister Julienne who is determined to save Nonnatus House from its financial rut but there is also excitement as the women’s rights movement gains momentum. “Through Covid we’ve learned a lot and people now look at the programme seeing it’s such an important thing to belong to a community and it's something in many ways we have begun to forget.

 

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