Michael Sheen says prospects for actors from poorer backgrounds ‘quite scary’ | Michael Sheen
Michael Sheen warned that the “Mother and Father Bank could not support the actors from the poorer communities, and that the roads that help him get into acting collapse.
The Bad Omens star, who grew up in the working class community of Port Talbot, said that he has benefited from school support, youth theaters and grants that have been under financial pressure since then.
He also said that a supportive family and his hometown of Richard Burton and Sir Anthony Hopkins also help his journey. However, the possibility of actors from inadequate pasts now looks now “quite scary”.
Speaking at an event that opened the Edinburgh TV festival, Sheen said, olmak Having the school games in which the drama took place in my school – there was a youth theater that was financed through the Council’s Education Department and I bought a grant to go to Drama School ”. “So to reach the point of going to the drama school, all these things had to be in place. All this is essentially gone.
“For young people who may want to enter this – if you trust the mother and father – it is really hard to go to London or go everywhere. So it is very important that we get something from London and the country.”
His comments are caused by a wider concern about the contraction of access in the TV world. A crisis in the sector has removed resident freelancers from work because production slows down and adapted to the industry’s rapidly changing consumption habits.
He was afraid that those who had no resources behind them would be the first to force an industry facing the allegations of having too many specially educated managers.
Sheen said there were plans to support actors from all pasts, but he was afraid that they had come too late to help some talented children. More football discoveries defended a system that detected talents at a younger age.
“It needs to be like football,” he said. “You need to take them at the age of six or seven – start to support people much more younger and start helping them, because many people will never come to the point where they are taken in such programs and projects.”
Sheen said that our first production is trying to deal with the new Galli National Theater with the Yeni Galli Lens ”by the author Russell T Davies, our first production by US playwright Thornton Wilder.
Sheen said he could spend time to help the home community in Port Talbot thanks to his success as an actor. However, Hollywood found that he was not immediately successful, and initially he found himself that he reads Stephen King novels and did very little when he was sitting in Diners.
Only when Tony Blair made an agreement in Channel 4 Drama in 2003, he led to play the former Prime Minister in the Queen three years later, and Hollywood said that his career was lifted..
“By reading Stephen King novels on my own, then to have a very different life and to open all kinds of opportunities as it is here, and suddenly a little choice and having all such things.”
