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# Peter Capaldi says posh actors are smooth, confident and tedious
- URL: https://werd.io/peter-capaldi-says-posh-actors-are-smooth-confident-and-tedious/
- Published: 2024-06-25T18:08:46.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-25T18:08:46.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Culture, Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Vanessa Thorpe in The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/jan/14/peter-capaldi-says-posh-actors-are-smooth-confident-and-tedious)\]

> “Art is about reaching out. So I think it’s wrong to allow one strata of society to have the most access.”

This is an older article, but it resonated with me so much that I wanted to share it immediately.

This is so important, and a sign of what we've lost:

> “I went \[to art school\] because the government of the day paid for me to go and I didn’t have to pay them back. There was a thrusting society then, a society that tried to improve itself. Yes, of course, it cost money. But so what? It allowed people from any kind of background to learn about Shakespeare, or Vermeer.”

A culture where only the rich are afforded the space, training, and platform to make art is missing the voices that make it special.

The same goes for other spaces: newsrooms where only the wealthy can serve as journalists cannot accurately represent the people who depend on it. Technology without class diversity is myopic. Above all else, a culture of rich people is boring as hell.

Art school - like all school - should be free and available to everyone. It's tragic that it's not. We all lose out, regardless of our background.

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\[[Link](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/jan/14/peter-capaldi-says-posh-actors-are-smooth-confident-and-tedious)\]