This topic has been around for ages and reared it's head again in 2011 when producers suggested replacing Oliver Ford Davies with Harry Hill for a London audiance.
Unlike Miller, Sir Alan Auckbourn recognised that David IS a theatre actor and not just a 'celebrity'.
"The award-winning playwright said the tendency to rely on household names,
many of whom have had no acting training, in order to attract a wider
audience was “just ridiculous”.
And while he expressed admiration for Hill’s work as a comedian and television presenter, he suggested that the idea to cast him as the notoriously melancholy poet was indicative of a wider problem.
“There are people like David Tennant who is a first-class actor, full stop, who just happens to have been in Doctor Who,” he said.
“But if you come out of I’m a Celebrity … and then turn up doing Hedda Gabler at the Royal Court, you could well be on a hiding to nothing. It’s just ridiculous.”
Taken from The Daily Telegraph - September 6, 2011 -
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