{"id":153441,"date":"2025-09-22T16:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/153441\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:37:09","slug":"tracey-ullman-its-very-hard-to-be-a-boy-in-this-world-right-now-culture-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/153441\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracey Ullman: \u2018It\u2019s very hard to be a boy in this world right now\u2019 | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/tracey-ullman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tracey Ullman<\/a> said she believes it&#8217;s &#8220;very hard to be a boy in this world right now&#8221; as she reflected on her role in Steve.<\/p>\n<p>The actor, 65, stars alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/cillian-murphy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cillian Murphy<\/a> in the drama, directed by Tim Mielants, which follows a headteacher of a troubled boys\u2019 college.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Independent at the London premiere on Tuesday (16 September), Ullman said when asked about her mother-like character, and what she thinks of the importance of maternal relationships to young boys in education: &#8220;I love these boys in this film.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a grandmother now&#8230; I think it&#8217;s very hard to be a boy in this world right now. It&#8217;s hard to be anybody, but especially a, a young person.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My best thing I&#8217;ve ever done is have children, but it ain&#8217;t easy, you know, you&#8217;re not having a baby, you&#8217;re having a person. And, uh, it&#8217;s a huge responsibility. Um, I felt all that for them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tracey Ullman said she believes it&#8217;s &#8220;very hard to be a boy in this world right now&#8221; as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-153441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}