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Human Rights Lawyer: Fearless
by The Newsroom | The Scotsman | June 24, 2017
Fake news, post-truth, a world where there are no facts, only interpretations, if ever the time was right for a character like Helen McCrory’s human rights lawyer in ITV’s six part legal thriller, Fearless, it’s now.
Emma Banville believes in truth and the ability of the British legal system to uphold it, but not without a fight, and the tenacious lawyer is up for that fight. Known as a champion of lost causes, she sets out to prove the innocence of a convicted killer, who has served 14 years in jail for the murder of a schoolgirl, amid a backdrop of official conspiracies and cover-ups.
“Emma is a hunter for the truth, fearless and brave. She believes in Britain’s legal system and that it will strive for a just and fairer society, and that nothing is above the law,” says McCrory over the phone from the Fearless press junket.
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A Quick Q&A with Aunt Polly of Peaky Blinders
Helen McCrory Tells What to Expect in the New Season Three
by Staff | Channel 24 | October 19, 2016
Cape Town – The hit show Peaky Blinders returns for a third season on BBC First (DStv 119).
Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy) is drawn into a maze of global intrigue in the electrifying new season of Steven Knight’s acclaimed family saga.
Approached by a secret organization on his own wedding day, Tommy finds himself at the center of an international arms deal that could change the course of history.
His legal and illegal businesses have made him rich beyond his dreams. .He now inhabits a Roaring Twenties world of beautiful people and sumptuous mansions, and he has found love at last. But Tommy’s relatives have become increasingly difficult to handle, and threaten to blow the Shelby family apart.
Aunt Polly (Helen McCrory) is Tommy’s second-in-command, the person he most trusts with the secrets and ambitions of the family business. But the return of her son Michael to the fold has made Polly uneasy about the company’s illegal enterprises. When she befriends a member of the upper classes, Polly imagines different possibilities for her future, and begins to ask herself questions that could strike at the very heart of the Peaky Blinders.
McCrory sat down for a quick Q&A about her characters and what to expect in the new season.
Where did we leave off with Polly in series two and how do we find her in series three?
We left Polly in series two having been reunited with the son that had been taken from her when he was young. She understandably feels hugely guilty about her past and wants to defend him with everything she has. Campbell, played by Sam Neill, sees this weakness in her and uses it to humiliate her, compromising herself in order to save her son. Polly is further humiliated by the fact that her son and everyone else knows what she has done and so she does what Peaky Blinders do and she kills Campbell.
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Helen McCrory Talks Peaky Blinders, Deep Blue Sea and Her Charity
by Imogen Blake | May 26, 2016 | Islington Gazette
Helen McCrory & husband Damian Lewis pictured with Debbi Clark, chief executive of the charity.
What does 1920s Birmingham gangster drama Peaky Blinders and an American western have in common?
More than you might think, according to Tufnell Park actress Helen McCrory, who’s back on our screens as the hard-as-nails Aunt Polly in the third series of the hit BBC show.
“Something that the Americans have understood is that they have mythologised their people.
“A bunch of cow herders going across the west are turned by John Wayne into a western. The gangster by [Martin] Scorsese has been turned into the hero.
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Helen McCrory: David Cameron, leave our BBC alone, before the Peaky Blinders come down Downing Street
The award-winning actor argues that she has ‘never heard anybody whine’ about paying the licence fee
by Jess Denham | May 9, 2016 | The Independent
Helen McCrory plays Aunt Polly in popular BBC2 drama Peaky Blinders while her husband, actor Damian Lewis, starred in Wolf Hall
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Helen McCrory has promised to set the Peaky Blinders on David Cameron if the government does not “leave the BBC alone”.
The award-winning actor plays the fearsome Aunt Polly in the BBC2 gangster drama, which returned for its long-awaited third series last Thursday.
Speaking to The Independent at the show’s press event in April, McCrory argued that she has “never heard anybody whine” about paying the £145.50 licence fee, which Culture Secretary John Whittingdale memorably branded “worse than a poll tax” in 2014.
“I know that our money has fallen from when Peaky Blinders started because of what is happening at the moment,” she said. “I think that the government policy at the moment of thinking that the country cares about the licence fee, frankly, when you look at what’s happening in Brussels is the least on our f**king minds.”
McCrory, 47, drew attention to acclaimed recent series such as Poldark, Banished and Wolf Hall, which she claims form an argument in themselves for protecting the BBC. “[The list of great BBC shows] goes on and on and on and that is because the BBC commissions TV with ambition,” she said. “Can you please write to David Cameron and ask him to leave our BBC alone before the Peaky Blinders come down Downing Street?”
Sunday night’s Bafta TV Awards were dominated by calls for the protection of the BBC, with Wolf Hall director Peter Kosminky using his winner’s speech to speak out in its defence.
“Our BBC is the envy of the world and we should stand up and fight for it,” he said, earning a standing ovation. “If we don’t, blink and it will be gone. There will be no more Wolf Halls, just a broadcasting landscape where the only determinate of whether something gets made is whether it’s like to line the pockets of its shareholders. It’s time for us to stand up and say ‘no’ to this dangerous nonsense.”