Mr. Declan Conlon:

It is complicated. The nature of radio is that broadcasters try to create drama. Whenever I heard actors referred to in a radio interview they were called "luvvies". It is an extraordinary thing. It is hard to gauge what the public's view is when the presenter is asking people what they make of these luvvies. If one asked the presenter to live on the kind of money we are living on, with no tenure of employment or health insurance, never knowing where his next job is coming from having to do another job interview every time he wanted to work, I think he would be calling us something else. I do not think he would be able for it. The perception of the acting community is like something from England in the 1950s, the era of Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud. It is nonsense. To answer the point, it is very hard to gauge the public's reaction.