Trigger warnings put out earlier than performs imply that fashionable audiences have gone “soft”, actor Ralph Fiennes has mentioned.

“The impact of theatre should be that you’re shocked, and should be that you’re disturbed, I don’t think you should be prepared for these things”, he instructed the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg.

The Harry Potter and In Bruges star mentioned that warnings for scenes that will have an effect on folks bodily ought to stay, however that as a lover of the theatre he by no means skilled set off warnings in his youth.

Fiennes is starring in a contemporary stage retelling of Macbeth this 12 months.