Britain’s cast of leading actors is needlessly laden with “smooth” fakers, who “are not the real thing”, according to Peter Capaldi, who speaks out to the Observer this weekend about the limited talent pool that theatre, film and television have to draw upon.
In an uncompromising interview, the Scottish actor and director, best known as the BBC’s 12th Doctor Who and as foul-mouthed spin doctor, Malcolm Tucker, in The Thick of It, bemoans the lack of financial support for working- class would-be performers.
