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The Woman and Home Interview: Helen McCrory
Helen McCrory on Fearless: ‘The first time I read the script, I couldn’t put it down’
by Charlotte Williamson | Woman and Home | June 13, 2017
For Woman & Home’s May cover shoot, Helen McCrory enters the w&h studio in a head-turning outfit of top-to-toe tartan. It’s a sartorial homage to her Glaswegian father who’s staying with her, a mix of “Vivienne Westwood and Topshop; punk-rock Scottish.”
She’s been up since 6am managing the kids and walking the dog, but you’d never guess. A veritable ball of energy, Helen can’t wait to see the clothes rail as, she explains, “I have three premieres coming up and might find something for the red carpet.” This is an actress in demand.
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In Vogue: Gambon And McCrory Talk Fearless
Fearless – set to be summer’s big thriller.by Vogue | June 13, 2017
by Vogue | June 13, 2017
MARY MCCARTNEY
Perched on a desk on the 32nd floor of the Shard, the London skyline pushing through the fog behind her, Helen McCrory puts her arms around Michael Gambon. “I did my first ever TV with him,” she says, smiling. “I played his daughter in The Entertainer in the early Nineties.”
It’s a fitting memory, not least because Gambon has had everyone on today’s set in stitches. “We hate each other on screen,” says Gambon, referring to his and McCrory’s spiky relationship in ITV’s new legal conspiracy thriller Fearless. “But not off,” he adds with a wink. After years working together, the pair have formed a close friendship. “Her husband’s a lovely bloke, too,” says Gambon, as they air-kiss goodbye.
Fearless is on ITV on Monday nights.
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Fearless star Helen McCrory: “We’re all pioneers as women now because there’s no blueprint”
Mistaking her OBE for a parking ticket and how husband Damian Lewis convinced her to join her new ITV drama
by Elizabeth Day | June 12, 2017 | Radio Times
Her latest incarnation is as the lead in ITV’s new political thriller, Fearless, scripted by Homeland writer Patrick Harbinson. McCrory plays Emma Banville, a campaigning lawyer who fights to free a man she believes was wrongfully convicted of killing a schoolgirl.
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Helen McCrory on Fearless, Peaky Blinders and juggling family life with husband Damian Lewis
The actress tells James Rampton why she refuses to accept that society is inherently selfish
by James Rampton | June 8, 2017 | The Independent
McCrory stars as a human rights lawyer in the legal thriller
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When he was interviewing politicians on BBC2’s Newsnight, it was often said that the presenter Jeremy Paxman lived by the old journalistic motto: “Why is this lying bastard lying to me?”
That is also the credo adopted by Emma Banville, the central character in Fearless, ITV’s absorbing new six-part legal thriller. Played with characteristic panache and passion by the actress Helen McCrory, Emma is a human rights lawyer whose speciality is defending lost causes. Her whole career has been based on questioning the powers that be and refusing to accept the official line.
According to Patrick Harbinson, the creator of the series, (who also worked with McCrory’s husband Damian Lewis on Homeland), the character is inspired by the work of lawyers like Gareth Peirce and Helena Kennedy.