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Eton, drama school, hugely wealthy well connected family...



Did he work for anything? I guess he didn't have to hustle his way round unpaid fringe theatre after he graduated either. What an easy life!

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Does someone pay you for shouting about this on any English actor's board? Granted I've only ran into you here and on the BC board, but I guess there must be others.


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Quite honestly, the majority of British actors hale from wealthy and entitled backgrounds. This is the case not only for most famous adult actors but also child actors (check out where most of the Harry Potter and Peter Pan cast went to school). People talk about Hollywood being a case of who you know but it's much worse in the UK, where it seems to be a case of where you went to school decides your success as an actor.


"I told you, I don't want to join your super-secret boy band."~ Tony Stark to Nick Fury

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You assume because his family could afford to send him to a fancy school that he somehow has never worked at all in his life? That's quite a leap. Maybe he got where he is today because of his TALENT not his parents' money. How about you try judging people on their CHARACTER instead of their birth status?

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