{"id":130293,"date":"2015-10-23T17:54:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T17:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/23\/20sidedmom-christopher-eccleston-why-my-doctor\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T00:30:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T00:30:18","slug":"20sidedmom-christopher-eccleston-why-my-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/23\/20sidedmom-christopher-eccleston-why-my-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-130293 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/23\/20sidedmom-christopher-eccleston-why-my-doctor\/attachment\/130294\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nmssxoMFSI1qadu9yo1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nmssxoMFSI1qadu9yo1_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nmssxoMFSI1qadu9yo1_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/20sidedmom.tumblr.com\/post\/116380428582\" target=\"_blank\">20sidedmom<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/news\/2015-04-14\/christopher-eccleston-why-my-doctor-had-to-be-northern\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Christopher Eccleston: Why my Doctor had to be northern<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re an alien how comes you sound like you\u2019re from the north?\u201d Billie Piper\u2019s Rose Tyler asked The Doctor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/DoctorWho10\" target=\"_blank\">ten years ago<\/a> \u2013 now Christopher Eccleston has finally revealed why his Time Lord had a northern accent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLots of planet have a north\u201d the Doctor told Rose way back then, but<br \/>\n Eccleston (who returns to our TV screens in ITV\u2019s new thriller Safe<br \/>\nHouse on Monday April 20th at 9pm) gives a rather different answer in<br \/>\nthis week\u2019s edition of Radio Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to move him away from the RP (received pronunciation) for<br \/>\nthe first time because we shouldn\u2019t make a correlation between intellect<br \/>\n and accent\u201d he says, \u201calthough that still needs addressing\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The self-described working-class actor also says that cultural<br \/>\ninequality is \u201cmuch more pronounced\u201d in Britain than it used to be, and<br \/>\nthat it would be difficult for a young actor with his background to<br \/>\nsucceed in the industry today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t blame Eddie Redmayne or Benedict Cumberbatch but<br \/>\ninequality will lead to a milky, anodyne culture. To an extent that\u2019s<br \/>\nalready happened,\u201d he argues.<\/p>\n<p>Eccleston stresses that it\u2019s not just about the working class though.<br \/>\n \u201cThere\u2019s not enough writing for women or people of colour\u201d he says. \u201cIt<br \/>\n frustrates me when they insist on doing all-male Shakespearean<br \/>\nproductions \u2013 a wonderful intellectual exercise, maybe, but it\u2019s<br \/>\noutrageous because it\u2019s putting a lot of women out of work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20sidedmom: Christopher Eccleston: Why my Doctor had to be northern \u201cIf you\u2019re an alien how comes you sound like you\u2019re from the north?\u201d Billie Piper\u2019s Rose Tyler asked The Doctor ten years ago \u2013 now Christopher Eccleston has finally revealed why his Time Lord had a northern accent. \u201cLots of planet have a north\u201d the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/23\/20sidedmom-christopher-eccleston-why-my-doctor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3731,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130295,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130293\/revisions\/130295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}