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Helen McCrory: Call me an actress not an actor – in my job gender matters

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A Person’s Sex “Really Matters” When Taking On A Role

by Emma Powell | The Evening Standard | June 6, 2017

McCrory said gender is important as men and women have very different experiences of the world

Helen McCrory has criticised calls for gender neutrality in acting, saying a person’s sex “really matters” when taking on a role.

The Peaky Blinders star said she found it “odd” when people called her an actor as opposed to an actress, because men and women have very different experiences of the world.

She told the Standard: “I’m not an actor – I’m an actress. I find it odd when people introduce me as an actor. There are many, many jobs that it doesn’t matter what sex you are — it doesn’t matter what sex your doctor is, or your lawyer – but as an actress your sex really matters because part of your experience of the world is as a woman.”

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Helen McCrory jokes she hasn’t seen her husband Damian Lewis ‘since last year’ due to conflicting schedules

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“My Lovely Man is Well”

by Fehintola Betiku | March 14 , 2016 | Daily Mail

Respectively they have built outstanding careers in the entertainment industry.

But it seems like their conflicting busy schedules is starting to take a toll on their marriage.

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Actress Helen McCrory: ‘I’m at my most powerful now’

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Taking More Risks at 45

By Daphne Lockyer | April 5, 2014 | Daily Mail

Abandoning her no-nudity clause, starring in romantic dramas opposite men 20 years her junior… Actress Helen McCrory tells Daphne Lockyer why, at 45, she is taking more risks with her career than ever before

Helen wears diamond earrings, Adler, adler.ch

Helen McCrory has asked for our interview to take place at an unpretentious gastropub just around the corner from her home in Tufnell Park, North London. She arrives without fuss or fanfare, on foot, dressed simply in a parka for warmth over a black skirt, opaque tights and a well-cut black blouse that she picked up in a little shop in Paris. ‘Fashion mecca for 5ft 2in midgets like myself,’ she laughs.

She is, indeed, tiny, yet the straight-backed posture, deep gravelly voice and ultra-posh vowels of the diplomat’s daughter that she is make her seem, somehow, statuesque. Jewellery-wise, too, she wears nothing more than a plain titanium engagement ring and a wedding band that she agreed to have made from more expensive platinum, after some badgering from her husband Damian Lewis, the actor and star of the hit TV series Homeland.

‘Not that you can really tell the difference,’ she says, rotating the rings for my inspection. ‘When my dad saw them he said, “What is Damian, a bl**** plumber?”’ she hoots. Continue reading Actress Helen McCrory: ‘I’m at my most powerful now’