Originally posted by Nocturnal SubmissionView Post
I always find it quite amusing that, given his accent, he was born in Tottenham to a working class family.
The amusement value is somewhat undermined by the contraction in social mobility in recent years; I've seen Charles Dance, another patrician sounding actor from a not terribly privileged background, express strong doubts about whether he would be able to pursue the same career today.
Really. There seem to be plenty of working class actors on the screen. What's less likely these days is that good-looking working class men and woman would take elocution lessons and forge a career playing upper-middle class roles, though Keeley Hawes is bucking the trend.
Mention of Keeley Hawes reminded me that Line of Duty seems to be one of the last great bastions of working class actors: Hawes, Adrian Dunbar, Vicky McClure, Lennie James, Martin Compston, Stephen Graham - not a public schooler amongst 'em.
Happy Birthday Leslie. Probably for several years already, the only actor still alive who performed at Pinewood Studios in its first week of opening in 1936.
I've seen Charles Dance, another patrician sounding actor from a not terribly privileged background, express strong doubts about whether he would be able to pursue the same career today.
I was at art college with Charlie Dance, he sounded then just the same as he does now.
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