The down-to-earth Helen McCrory on her new show, ‘We’ll Take Manhattan’, and her terror of the red carpet
by Bryony Gordon | January 16, 2012 | The Telegraph
An interview with Helen McCrory cannot pass without it being noted how normal she is, so we may as well start as we mean to go on. The star of no less than three Harry Potter movies has taken the Tube to our interview in a café off the Holloway Road, a less than salubrious neighbourhood just around the corner from her north London home. McCrory, who is dressed in very normal Topshop, and has a very normal head of unbrushed black hair, left a voicemail to let me know she might be a little late – “I don’t want you to be sitting there twiddling your thumbs,” it said – and then followed up with another call to tell me when she was getting on the Piccadilly line.
A lighting at Holloway Road station, I notice a sign warning commuters that the area is a hot spot for mobile phone thieves. When I arrive at the café McCrory, 43, is standing outside on her mobile waving gaily – not at me, but some burly bloke across the road. “We’re doing a transaction,” she winks conspiratorially, and I immediately think “drugs!”, but it is only 11 in the morning and, as a middle-class mother of two young children, drugs can’t be at the top of McCrory’s list of priorities, even if at times she felt driven to them.
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