Female performers should be called actors – poll

Female performers should be called actors – poll

"In an interview with The Guardian, she said: “We fought to be on the stage. We should reclaim that word: I don’t know where it came from, this fucking notion that putting ‘ess’ on the end makes us weak. I would be no less afraid of a lioness than a lion.”"

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TAGS: Live theatre, Film, Denise Gough

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