Matthew Vaughn has hit out at the rise in celebrity culture claiming that it has led to actors having 'no technique or any skillset'.
Vaughn is back in the director's chair this week with his new movie Kick Ass and he had admits that he wanted to cast an American in the central role but couldn't find the talent.
In the end he cast British actor Aaron Johnson, who was last seen playing John Lennon in Nowhere Boy.
Speaking to the Press Association the filmmaker said: "I'm English and I didn't want to do the reverse Dick Van Dyke of having an English bloke trying to do an American accent and us all thinking it's brilliant and the Americans saying it's not, but I couldn't find an American that was right for the role.
"Sadly one of the things wrong with the culture right now is there's this celebrity culture and all these kids want to be famous but have no technique or any skillset, so all the actors weren't cutting the mustard.
"And Aaron came in, did a fantastic audition and I asked him where he was from, thinking he'd say New York or California, and he said Little Chalfont.
"I was commenting on how good his English accent was and he went 'no I am English' and I went 'well you're good enough for the role because you conned me'. And the American casting director was blown away by his accent as well."
Kick Ass is released 26th March.
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