To find it sad that privately educated actors dominate telly/film?

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6% of the population go to private school yet the majority of successful British screen actors have been privately educated.

I just find it quite bleak really and makes it feel like it's nigh on impossible to make it in that industry without a leg up and connections.

Is that true of classical music as well?

I wouldn’t have considered classical music as “the British music scene”. I didn’t realise I had to specify pop, rock, indie, rap, hip hop, dance, trance, garage, jungle, folk, metal, funk, house, ska….

Largely, yes.

Lessons and instruments are expensive.

fairness, equality, and classism aren't things people should care about?

Yes I think there’s huge snobbery around soaps - wrongly I think

We don't want to pigeon hole working class actors only into Blackstuff type roles tho, tho more of that kind would be very valuable. Strictly speaking, the 'something to say' was from Alan Bleasdale, not from the actors, excellent though they were.

This is also a good example of period drama not necessarily excluding working class actors- it seems very wrong to suggest, as some on this thread seem to, that period drama automatically shuts working class actors out, that they need working class roles to shine
The issue isn't too much period drama (though more working class roles would be very good), but a lack of opportunities for working class kids to get good acting training.

It’s not a very good example of that, since the point she’s making is that she’s very unusual.