"It's a blandfest": Samuel Johnson calls on television "more ugly people"

Actor Samuel Johnson denounced the lack of diversity on Australian screens, calling local television "blandfest".

The winner of the Gold Logie Award stated that he was "not inspired", having spent years away from the industry campaigning for cancer research funding on behalf of his sister Connie, who died in September 2017.

Johnson, 40, said the local industry was "globalized" and left actors who did not fit the mold of Hollywood superheroes who were struggling to find work.

"These poor actors who stay in this country are working … It's pretty much every actor I know, it's about 30 days a year," Johnson said in Brisbane.

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"If you do not scratch accents, if you have a square jaw, and Liam Hemsworth has … growing teeth, then you will struggle."

The secret life of us Star said the actors were rare, probably like him, with ordinary cups.

"It has always been harder for girls, I can not imagine how much harder it is for them now, but for guys, we've always been allowed to watch our TV as normal," he says. did he declare.

"This is no longer true – now it has become a group of people so close we see there.

"I just want to see more diversity," he added. "I want to see more fat people, more ugly people, more people with different shades of skin.

"It's just a blandfest, that's Beigy McBeigeFace."

Johnson, who is currently promoting a book of letters addressed to Santa by celebrities as part of a new funding offer for his charity Love Your Sister, has announced his resignation in 2016, a year before claiming Gold Logie's victory for playing Molly Meldrum series Molly.

"I promised our village to work with them full time until we reached 10 million Australian dollars for cancer research and I intend to make tribute to that, Gold Logie or not, "he said later.

The work of the actor with Love Your Sister, which has raised more than 6 million Australian dollars for cancer research, also saw it named "Australian of the Year" of Victoria last October.