Never the twain…
HOW REFRESHING TO HEAR the Bafta-winning Mr McGovern announce that his working-class actors are better off sticking to playing their own and us “posh” folk likewise.
Surely this makes sense for all concerned? No longer would we be obliged to endure the rough diamond Glaswegian/Mancunian pretending to join the aristocracy, nor the public school boy affecting affinity with Cockney geezers.
Let the drawbridge go up, new harmony awaits: they keep the bird from Line of Duty, we, the fine fillies from the Home Counties. Apart from occasional encounters at increasingly irrelevant awards ceremonies, I see no reason for our paths to cross again?
ADDRESSING CRITICISM of the
