wait…

christopher eccleston…

AS IN THIS CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON???

The self-described working-class actor also says that cultural inequality is “much more pronounced” in Britain than it used to be, and that it would be difficult for a young actor with his background to succeed in the industry today.

“You can’t blame Eddie Redmayne or Benedict Cumberbatch but inequality will lead to a milky, anodyne culture. To an extent that’s already happened,” he argues.

Eccleston stresses that it’s not just about the working class though. “There’s not enough writing for women or people of colour” he says. “It frustrates me when they insist on doing all-male Shakespearean productions – a wonderful intellectual exercise, maybe, but it’s outrageous because it’s putting a lot of women out of work.”

source: https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-04-14/christopher-eccleston-why-my-doctor-had-to-be-northern/

this quote is tangentially related, but I think it helps show where this is coming from. he’s already very aware of Britain’s cultural inequality (maybe even experienced it himself, idk), and who better represents that inequality than the parasite queen herself?

And this is why Christopher Eccleston basically got blacklisted from the BBC for about 10 years

They were opened in AUGUST 2001. Oh my god. That's both hilarious and tragic.