{"id":46271,"date":"2024-02-20T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1995598"},"modified":"2024-02-20T20:43:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T19:43:41","slug":"doctor-whos-matt-smith-on-trigger-warnings-isnt-art-meant-to-be-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/doctor-whos-matt-smith-on-trigger-warnings-isnt-art-meant-to-be-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who\u2019s Matt Smith on trigger warnings: \u201cIsn\u2019t art meant to be dangerous?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Imagine you go to kids watching Doctor Who, ‘By the way, this might scare you.'” <\/p>

By Lidia Molina-Whyte\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 20 February 2024 at 18:00 PM<\/p>

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Matt Smith has weighed in on Ralph Fiennes\u2019s comments about trigger warnings, using Doctor Who<\/a> as an example of how trigger warnings could impact on art.<\/p>\n

The House of the Dragon star appeared on political chat show Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg \u2013 a week after Fiennes told Kuenssberg that he would get rid of trigger warnings before plays.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe impact of theatre should be that you\u2019re shocked, and should be that you\u2019re disturbed, I don\u2019t think you should be prepared for these things,\u201d Fiennes said.<\/p>\n

Smith, who is currently starring in An Enemy of the People on the West End<\/a>, agreed with Fiennes, telling Kuenssberg: \u201cI watched it, I agree with Ralph, utterly and completely.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to say: \u201cI always thought that was one of the great things of doing Doctor Who. That you scared children, in a controlled way, but you did scare them. Imagine you go to kids watching Doctor Who, \u2018By the way, this might scare you.\u2019 No, I\u2019m not into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Adding to Fiennes\u2019s comments, Smith went on to say: \u201cThat\u2019s why we go to the theatre, isn\u2019t it? To be shocked, to be arrested out of ourselves, to recognise ourselves in front and with an audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

He did include a caveat for effects like strobe lightning, before reiterating: \u201cI worry sometimes that we\u2019re moving towards a sort of sanitised version of everything and we\u2019re stripping the danger and the invention and the ingenuity out of [everything]. Isn\u2019t art meant to be dangerous?\u201d<\/p>\n

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