Helen McCrory: “What I love about travel is the freedom. Anything that gets in the way of that is missing the point”
by | October 20, 2014
Helen McCrory’s Travelling Life
Category: Personal and Family Life
Categories Appearances Audio Books Personal and Family Life Poetry
Helen and Damian Read Poetry at Cheltenham Literature Festival
The Love Book: Great Love Poems
by Damianista | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis | October 13, 2014
One of the main poetry projects Helen and Damian support is the Love Book project including a book as well as an app, a brilliant collection of classic and contemporary love poems that vary from Shakespeare to E.E. Cummings to Maya Angelou.
It is always a pleasure to talk about the Love Book project and an absolutely delightful Love Book event that I was extremely lucky to attend in October 2014 at Cheltenham Literature Festival: Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory read Great Love Poems. followed by a wonderful book signing by Allie, Damian and Helen!
Continue reading Helen and Damian Read Poetry at Cheltenham Literature Festival
Categories A Little Chaos Bill Interviews Penny Dreadful Personal and Family Life Print Media The Woman in Black, Angel of Death
Helen McCrory Interview: Woman & Home
The Real Me
by Victoria Young | Woman & Home | Autumn, 2014
Helen McCrory talks to Victoria Young about feminism, marriage to a sex symbol – and being a gypsy at heart.
Actress Helen McCrory, 46, has played everyone from Medea to Cherie Blair as well as Polly Gray in Peaky Blinders. She’s married to actor Damian Lewis. They live in London and have two children, Manon, eight, and Gulliver, seven.
I grew up in Africa because my father was a diplomat. So I was lucky enough to grow up in a world without advertising. As a result, I’ve never judged myself on what I was supposed to look like. It’s good and bad. When it came to filming the second series of Peaky Blinders, I decided “I want Polly to look rougher, she should look haggard, life beaten, absolutely exhausted.” I then saw the first episode and remembered the adage, “Be careful what you wish for.”
Categories Personal and Family Life Print Media
What I see in the Mirror: Helen McCrory
My eyes are large, with dark circles – as the Spanish say, “God put her eyes in with a sooty thumb”‘
Rosanna Greenstreet | August 2, 2014 | The Guardian
My hair is wild, Janis Joplin crossed with Jimi Hendrix. There’s a nice man – Matthew – in Percy Street who tames it for me. But if there’s no time, I’ll happily pop on a wig or hat or, if it’s not too hot, both.
My eyes are large, with dark circles – as the Spanish say, “God put her eyes in with a sooty thumb.” Teeth, nondescript. Lips, full – less so now, which allows me to wear red lipstick without looking like a sex worker.
I’m small, but have always thought of myself as tall. I stand straight, with one of my two children welded to each hip. I am strong – years of ballet as a child have assured that my legs would not look out of place in a football squad lineup.
I’m a mixture of my father and my mother inside and out – Welsh and Scottish with a dash of English.
My best feature is my smile, and I suppose it will remain my best feature for ever. After all, a happy, toothless, withered old crone smiling at you is better than a grumpy, toothless, withered old crone snarling at you.
Helen McCrory: Women who obsess about their looks have too much time on their hands
“Women who obsess about their age and weight have too much time on their hands”
Women who obsess over their age and appearance have too much time on their hands, the actress Helen McCrory has said.
McCrory, the wife of Homeland star Damian Lewis, said so many women are now preoccupied with their weight and changing looks.
Saying her own upbringing had taught her “thing like that just don’t f—– matter”, she insisted her own self-worth would never be determined by her looks.
McCrory, who has appeared in The Queen, Skyfall and the Harry Potter franchise, has now paid tribute to her parents for instilling in her a refreshing approach to ageing.
Continue reading Helen McCrory: Women who obsess about their looks have too much time on their hands