Ralph Fiennes appeared on Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg (Jeff Overs/BBC/PA)Suffolk-born Fiennes told BBC One’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg: “I think we didn’t used to have trigger warnings. “But I think the impact of theatre should be that you’re shocked and you should be disturbed. “Shakespeare’s plays are full of murderers, full of horror … It’s the shock, the unexpected, that’s what makes an actor (in) theatre so exciting,” Fiennes also said. Ralph Fiennes said he believed trigger warnings in theatre should go (Ian West/PA)Elsewhere, he spoke about his campaign against plans to build “an energy hub” near Aldeburgh in Suffolk which brings in electricity from wind farms. “This is a greenfield site proposal.”He said that the proposals had wider implications as building “new clean energy infrastructure is really, really vital” and called the current proposals a “disaster”.

Source: The Times February 11, 2024 11:25 UTC