Now Fox blasts at black actors ‘who play the race card’
OUTSPOKEN Lewis actor Laurence Fox has hit out at black and working-class actors for complaining about the industry – once they have “five million quid in the bank”.
The 41-year-old star sparked controversy on Question Time last week when he claimed that the charge of “racism” over treatment of the Duchess of Sussex was “boring”.
He has now once again waded into a debate over race as he told The Delingpod podcast: “The most annoying thing is the minute a black actor – it’s the same with working-class actors – the minute they’ve got five million quid in the bank, every interview they do is about how racism is rampant and rife in the industry.
“And with working-class actors, ‘There’s not enough working-class actors’.
“You weren’t saying that when you didn’t have a ******* pot to **** in were you?”
He told the podcast, presented by writer James Delingpole, that he no longer pays his licence fee and does not watch the BBC.
The actor said: “TV seems to have a bit of an agenda, a lot of it. It’s trying to tell you something.
“I don’t want to be told something. I’d rather watch a story.
There’s just so much that turns you off when you turn on the TV now because you feel like, ‘This is what you’re meant to think’.”
Fox, part of the acting dynasty which includes his father James Fox and uncle Edward Fox, said: “I haven’t watched the BBC in many a year now or listened to it.
“They’d never see me for anything, but then I don’t tick the BBC boxes do I?... I’m not paying my licence fee any more.”
The star, who found TV fame as DS James Hathaway in Lewis, also revealed his rules for dating.
He said he now refuses to date women under 35 because they are “too woke” and “primed to think they are victims”.
He told how he once broke up with a girlfriend because she liked a pro-#MeToo TV advert.
Fox said he told his ex-love: “Bye. Sorry I can’t do this with you,” after she praised Gillette for their TV campaign on “toxic masculinity”.