Christopher Eccleston has spoken about class inequality in British acting.

The Safe House star admitted to Radio Times that he still feels "insecure" as a working class actor.



He said: "I had a sense acting wasn't for me because I'm not educated. British society has always been based on inequality, particularly culturally.

"I've lived with it, but it's much more pronounced now, and it would be difficult for someone like me to come through.

"You can't blame Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch and others taking their opportunities but it will lead to a milky, anodyne culture. To an extent, that's already happened."

Eccleston added: "I confess I don't watch much film or television drama but I'm aware of the predominance of white, male roles.



"It's not just about the working class. There's not enough writing for women or people of colour. It frustrates me when they insist on doing all-male Shakespearean productions - a wonderful intellectual exercise, maybe, but it's outrageous because it's putting a lot of women out of work."

Meanwhile, Eccleston briefly spoke about his time on Doctor Who, explaining that one of his main aims when taking the role was to move the character away from "received pronunciation" to prove that "we shouldn't make a correlation between intellect and accent".

"I hope I'll be remembered as one of the Doctors. I have no ill feeling towards the character or the series. I don't watch it and am not keen to discuss it because I want this to be about Safe House. That's my mortgage," he said.

Safe House begins on Monday, April 20 at 9pm on ITV.

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