The Dublin-born actor Michael Gambon has declared that he is “a terrible snob” about Strictly Come Dancing and would not appear on the show. “I think, ‘Oh, that’s a bit common," he told the Radio Times.
The veteran actor is to appear in the BBC’s adaptation of The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling’s first novel for adults, which begins on Sunday.
After being informed that there was a drama school in every British town, Gambon remarked: “I thought, ‘God almighty!’ It can’t be really right, can it? Because you’re leading people up the wrong path, aren’t you?
"I worry about them, because it must be miserable for them. There must be so many actors who go to drama school and never get a job.”
Gambon recently decided to stop working on stage due to problems with memory loss.
Watch the actor in The Casual Vacancy:
