“I worry sometimes that we’re moving towards a sanitised version of everything”Actor Matt Smith says theatre should “shock” people and that “one of the great things about Doctor Who was that you scared children, but in a controlled way”
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00:00 Do you ever worry that you're going to lose control of the audience?
00:02 You know, it might be like a really...
00:03 I want to lose control.
00:04 Really?
00:05 Yeah, because that's what the theatre is about.
00:07 And I think we need to, we need to lose control a bit, don't we?
00:10 It's interesting that you want people to have a really strong reaction.
00:13 On the show last week, Ralph Fiennes said that trigger warnings should go.
00:20 I agree.
00:20 People should be shocked.
00:21 I agree. I watched it. I agree with Ralph utterly and completely.
00:25 That's why we go to the theatre, isn't it?
00:26 To be shocked, to be arrested out of ourselves, to recognise ourselves in front and with an audience.
00:33 I also agree that if there are strobes or whatever, there are some things that make sense.
00:37 But, you know, I worry sometimes that we're moving towards a sort of sanitised version of everything.
00:44 And we're stripping the danger and the invention and the ingenuity out of...
00:47 Isn't art meant to be dangerous?
00:50 It's like, you know, I always thought that was one of the great things of doing
00:53 The Doctor Who is that you scared children but in a controlled way, but you did scare them.