There are lots of actors who are posh and stick with that, and there are lots of actors who are cockney, and that's what they do. That's fine, but I don't think that could be said about me.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.
When I started in the profession, there were very visible actors who were Scottish, Welsh, or regional. Lots of working-class-hero leading actors; it was not fashionable to sound posh. Now, I'm middle-aged; it's fashionable to sound posh if you are the generation behind me.
I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.
I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.
In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.
In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.
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