Matt Smith speaks out against trigger warnings: “It’s OK to feel uncomfortable”
nme.comThe Times, the House Of Dragon star suggested that flagging potentially upsetting content was dumbing down storytelling for audiences.“Too much policing of stories and being afraid to bring them out because a climate is a certain way is a shame.
I’m not sure I’m on board with trigger warnings,” Smith said.“It’s OK to feel uncomfortable or provoked while looking at a painting or watching a play, but I worry everything’s being dialled and dumbed down.
We’re telling audiences they’re going to be scared before they’ve watched something.”Smith, who is next set to appear in the horror film Starve Acre, recalled renting Slither, Basic Instinct, Disclosure, and Friday the 13th when he was “too young.” He joked that the latter “absolutely ruined me.”Smith previously commented on trigger warnings in relation to Doctor Who, the BBC series in which he starred for four years.“I always thought that was one of the great things of doing Doctor Who,” he told the BBC in February. “That you scared children, in a controlled way, but you did scare them.
Imagine you go to kids watching Doctor Who, ‘By the way, this might scare you.’ No, I’m not into it.”Smith isn’t the only actor to speak out against trigger warnings this year.
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