fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days agoTheatre is an elitist artform for privileged people': Daniel Day-Lewis talks class, cinema and his crush on Mary Poppins
His drama training at the Bristol Old Vic school had encouraged in him the sense that theatre work was the goal. Then there's films: bit dodgy. Television: like, really? OK, you gotta pay the gas bill. That was the thinking. There was no concession [in the training] to movies at all. But secretly, most of us [students] longed to make movies, because we'd been raised on movies, and movies seemed just so wonderful to us and magical. Not that the theatre isn't too, but the theatre in itself is an elite cultural form.
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