seen her excel on stage and screen from comedies to musicals. increasingly, she s written and created her own shows. is that the pathway to empowerment in an industry where actors can be just another commodity? jane horrocks, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. it is great to have you in the studio. you have been in this acting business for almost four decades. i wonder when you think about your own career, do you feel that you very consciously shaped it or is it more a question of serendipity and stuff thatjust happened? i think there is a lot of both actually, yes. i think i did engineer quite a lot of it in that my choices were very specific but certain things happened at a certain time that kind of formed it as well. and when you think about the big choices, the key choices, that you made that were instrumental in shaping your career, what would you point to? i think probably the biggest choice that i made was leaving the rsc. the royal shakespeare company? yes, whi
jane horrocks, that her acting career has spanned four decades and has seen her excel on stage and screen from comedies to musicals. increasingly, she s written and created her own shows, is that the pathway to empowerment in an industry where actors can be just another commodity? jane horrocks, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. it is great to have you in the studio. you have been in this acting business for almost four decades, i wonder when you think about your own career, do you feel that you very consciously shaped it or is it more a question of serendipity and stuff thatjust happened? i think there is a lot of both actually, yes. i think i did engineer quite a lot of it in that my choices were very specific but certain things happened at a certain time that kind of formed it as well. and when you think about the big choices, the key choices that you made that were instrumental in shaping your career, what would you point to? i think probably the biggest choice th
spanned four decades and has seen her excel on stage and screen from comedies to musicals. increasingly, she s written and created her own shows, is that the pathway to empowerment in an industry where actors can be just another commodity? jane horrocks, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. it is great to have you in the studio. you have been in this acting business for almost four decades. i wonder when you think about your own career, do you feel that you very consciously shaped it or is it more a question of serendipity and stuff thatjust happened? i think there is a lot of both actually, yes. i think i did engineer quite a lot of it in that my choices were very specific but certain things happened at a certain time that kind of formed it as well. and when you think about the big choices, the key choices, that you made that were instrumental in shaping your career, what would you point to? i think probably the biggest choice that i made was leaving the rsc. the royal
and you had been to rada, the very famous drama school, and then you d gotten into the rsc, which most young actors would just regard as the best, biggest break, you sort of walked away from shakespeare. yeah, i just think at that time, being from a kind of working class background, ijust didn t think, and the way i spoke, and the way i was, that i was theirfodder at that time, so i d be working my way up in a very incremental sort of way rather than landing a fabulous part very early on. so i kind of thought, actually, it s not going to serve me right here, right now. that is interesting because we have had other actors on this show who have talked about the degree to which they felt and
and then you d gotten into the rsc, which most young actors would just regard as the best, biggest break, you sort of walked away from shakespeare. yeah, i just think at that time, being from a kind of working class background, ijust didn t think, and the way i spoke, and the way i was, that i was theirfodder at that time, so i d be working my way up in a very incremental sort of way rather than landing a fabulous part very early on. so i kind of thought, actually, it s not going to serve me right here, right now. that is interesting because we have had other actors on this show who have talked about the degree to which they felt and sometimes still feel that they felt acting is dominantly a middle and upper middle class preserve and that working class people