Aunt Polly’s original reaction when son Michael came home was very different in Peaky Blinders
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Helen McCrory reveals the Peaky Blinders scene that was just too much for TV
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Helen McCrory: ‘ I don’t think I’m deep enough to have mental-health issues’
On Badass Women and Being Married to Her ‘Best Friend’
by Gavanndra Hodge | The Telegraph | August 9, 2019
She’s straight-talking, hates housework, dresses to kill, and lives life her way – convention be damned. Turns out Helen McCrory has plenty in common with her badass Peaky Blinders character Polly.
Helen McCrory, the multiple-award winning actor, is holding what looks like a moist slice of turkey. ‘What is that?’ I ask. ‘It’s a face mask, darling. £1.99 from Superdrug,’ she says, rubbing it against her neck. ‘It’s going to make me look like a teenager.’
We are standing outside a café on the Regent’s Canal, cyclists and prams whizzing by. McCrory is wearing a floral tea dress, silver Zadig & Voltaire boots, sunglasses and a VIP wristband from a Bob Dylan concert she went to, five days ago. ‘I am never taking it off,’ she says.
There is a sort of rock-star swagger to Helen McCrory, 50, a charismatic, don’t-give-a-damn cool with her chipped red nails and posh-voiced sweariness. She likes to party, to wear top hats and vintage frocks, and there is the inevitable doubling of glamour that comes from her marriage to the actor Damian Lewis (Brody from Homeland, more recently Bobby Axelrod in Billions), with whom she lives in a tall, narrow house in Tufnell Park with their children Manon, 12, and Gulliver, 11.
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Helen McCrory on why she loves playing Peaky Blinders’ Polly Gray
Plus, why Aunt Polly is Misunderstood
by Megan Sutton | August 8, 2019 | Good Housekeeping
Although in real life most of us strive to be good citizens, for actors there’s lots of fun to be had in pretending to be someone with a darker side. That’s certainly true for Peaky Blinders star Helen McCrory, who much prefers playing a baddie.
“It’s much more fun, it’s loads of fun playing the baddie,” she told press including Goodhousekeeping.com/uk at a preview ahead of Peaky Blinders season five.
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Seven Questions with Helen McCrory on Van Gogh
Van Gogh: Anger, Passion, Influence, Struggle, Inspiration
by Gingersnap4Helen | helen-mccrory.com | April 9, 2019
We caught up with actress Helen McCrory, who gave us her experience discovering how Van Gogh was inspired by British art, literature and culture at the Van Gogh and Britain exhibition at Tate Britain.
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MotherFatherSon on BBC: Helen McCrory spills on ‘CHAOTIC’ drama twists
MotherFatherSon sees the lives of Caden Finch (played by Billy Howle), Max Finch (Richard Gere) and Kathryn Villiers (Helen McCrory) thrown into turmoil.
Caden is a ruthless editor of a newspaper and is desperate to impress his father, Max.
But disaster strikes at the end of the episode which changes absolutely everything.
Ahead of tonights episode, the cast and crew have spoken about what’s to come in the series.
One of the stars of the show, Helen, opened up about what viewers can expect from the extremely complex and harrowing drama.