On stripping for action at 46 and giving husband Damian Lewis a run for his money
‘I have only just started doing sex scenes. When I was younger, I would always say no to taking my clothes off. Now I’m 46, I know what the camera is doing,’ said Helen McCrory
‘I love the fact that I get to wear loads of kohl eyeliner, a big hat and shoot a gun,’ says Helen McCrory, talking about her role in the BBC2 series Peaky Blinders.
She plays the matriarchal Aunt Polly in a Twenties Birmingham gangster family and wields a long hatpin with lethal consequences.
It seems only fair after all the fun her actor husband Damian Lewis had playing a war hero-turned-terrorist in Homeland.
Tough, confident and uncompromising in her choice of work, McCrory, like Aunt Polly, is a force to be reckoned with.
She has won numerous awards during an impressive stage and screen career (her credits include Harry Potter, The Queen and several high-profile TV dramas, including Charles II and North Square) and easily holds her own as one half of that formidable partnership with Lewis.
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