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Peaky Blinders: Helen McCrory on playing Aunt Polly as brutal family saga returns

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Helen McCrory doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to Peaky Blinders

by Alan Shaw | August 29, 2019 | Sudnday Post

 August 29, 2019, 12:01 am
Natasha O'Keeffe and Helen McCrory in Peaky Blinders
Natasha O’Keeffe and Helen McCrory in Peaky Blinders

Helen McCrory doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to Peaky Blinders.

You’d think McCrory, who plays Aunt Polly, the matriarch of the Shelby family, would be used to the brutality of their on-screen crimes.

But, at a screening of an episode from the new fifth series, she had to look away at one point.

“I, as Helen, can’t watch it,” admits the 51-year-old Londoner.

“It’s disgustingly violent. And it should be. I think it’s much more disturbing that somebody slashes somebody’s face, or somebody shoots somebody, and it’s all just the end of it.

“It should be horrifying, and you should have the people who are responsible for the violence unable to self-medicate or having mental health problems, or all the things that do happen to people if you kill other people. It is not a natural state of affairs.”

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