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
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, which was my firstjob and they offered me another season and i th
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they were talking about. there is another intriguing discussion right now that seems to me potentially restricts the kinds of roles actors can do, that is the one about and the word is used authenticity . to be very simplistic about it, it boils down to the idea that for example if you are playing a gay character, you really ought to have a gay actor doing that to give extra meaning and insight they can bring, and whether it might be a disabled part, that should be played by a disabled actor rather than famously many years ago, daniel day lewis playing a man with cerebral palsy. what s your feeling about that? i think it s good, i think it s a good thing that s happening. doesn t that restrict your range as an actor? i don t know. isn t that the point of acting that you can use your talent and imagination to put yourselves in other people s shoes. certainly cate blanchett, another leading female actor,