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Elsie (the hotel worker witch)


Elsie, the lady who minds the doors during the meeting and who also works in the hotel, seems to have escaped drinking the potion!

She gets a lot of screen time so i would have assumed she would appear at the dinner. She was working when Luke took the potion back to his grandmother's room. I hardly think she would have been allowed to have dinner with the other witches.

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That's a good point actually :/ I thought you she looked a lot like Miranda Richardson, but she's not listed as being part of the cast...

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When all the witches are turning into mice, you can see her and the manager wondering what to do.

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Really - I'll have to re-watch that bit.

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Yes, it's when all the witches are shaking and transforming, and the hotel maids are killing the mice. You see her with Rowan Atkinson.

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When? I re-watched that scene and could not see her in it at all.

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Who Miranda Richardson? She's nowhere to be seen in this scene.

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That's two that got away. If the chef witch had not been foolish enough to taste the soup she'd have gotten away, too.

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Actually, she was the first victim.

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Because she was the first to taste the soup while prepping it in the kitchen. Then she tries and warn the others in the dining room and one of them squash her for her troubles.

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No, the kitchen cook is a totally different darker-haired woman and character.

The blondish hotel woman however is seen transforming in the final extended transformation scene not far from the English witch who first approached Luke. We definitely see her begin to become a mouse, at least.

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Can't get them all in just one shot.

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