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John Hurt is a snob
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What a non-story, so what?
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What a non-story, so what?
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Makes a change from the papers saying 'So-and-so wants to be in EE/Corrie/Emmerdale'
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I thought it was so funny when he did Who Do you Think You Are and he was so disappointed that instead of the exciting Irish ancestors he expected, it turned out his family came from Croydon. He seemed quite pretentious and very grumpy.
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I don't want to sound thick, but who the hell is John Hurt?
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I don't want to sound thick, but who the hell is John Hurt?
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He's a big actor, who comes accross as a bit of a moody so-and-so in interviews and quite clearly thinks a lot of himself.
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He's an excellent actor, but yes a bit pompous as many actors are. He was brilliant in the Alan Clark Diaries.
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He played John Merrick in the Elephant Man
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He's probably heard how much hard work it is.
It's quite sad if he is best known for the dreadful Alien which in my opinion is far naffer than any soap. He's done one or two other things...http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000457/ |
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I thought it was so funny when he did Who Do you Think You Are and he was so disappointed that instead of the exciting Irish ancestors he expected, it turned out his family came from Croydon. He seemed quite pretentious and very grumpy.
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I see absolutely no reason why this made the news....
He is not associated with soaps, so why on earth does he feel he needs to tell us he doesn't want to be in one?? |
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Why does somebody have to be a snob just because they don't want to be in a soap opera?
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He IS a brilliant actor.
If he IS a snob then he's a person who has a lot to be snobbish about!
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He IS a brilliant actor.
If he IS a snob then he's a person who has a lot to be snobbish about! ![]() |
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He was in Midnight Express, pretty good in that. I like John Hurt and his humanitarian attitude.
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Why does somebody have to be a snob just because they don't want to be in a soap opera?
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So what? Who cares? I like John Hurt as an actor, but why does it matter if he doesn't want to be in a soap?
There's nothing in that article that suggests he is dissing soaps, he just doesn't want to appear in one. So why is he therefore a snob? |
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Perhaps it's just me but it read as if he feels himself above that.
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So what? Who cares? I like John Hurt as an actor, but why does it matter if he doesn't want to be in a soap?
There's nothing in that article that suggests he is dissing soaps, he just doesn't want to appear in one. So why is he therefore a snob?
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I don't want to sound thick, but who the hell is John Hurt?
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I do think he's a great actor: he played Timothy Evans in 10 Rillington Place, Caligula in I Claudius, the Elephant Man (sorry can't remember his name), Quentin Crisp in the Naked Civil servant, Alan Clark, and many more. I can't really see how he would gain from being in a soap, though he may have come across as a bit dismissive of them because he does seem to take himself very seriously. Ian McKellen has much more of a sense of fun and I loved watching him in Corrie.
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the Elephant Man (sorry can't remember his name),
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Why does somebody have to be a snob just because they don't want to be in a soap opera?
![]() ![]() Does that mean it would be inverse snobbery if say, Barbara Windsor, were to say that she would never want to be on the stage in Shakespeare ?? Just personal preference, surely ?? - something which we are all allowed to express
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