Who did this to us?
by BBC | You Tube | September 25, 2014
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VIDEO: Helen McCrory at Peaky Blinders Season 2 World Premiere
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Helen McCrory: ‘There is this assumption that a woman my age can’t be sexy’
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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VIDEO: Helen McCrory Talks Peaky Blinders on Lorraine
Aunt Polly on Lorraine
by Lorraine Show | You Tube | September 18, 2014
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Helen McCrory Interview: Woman & Home
The Real Me
by Victoria Young | Woman & Home | Autumn, 2014
Helen McCrory talks to Victoria Young about feminism, marriage to a sex symbol – and being a gypsy at heart.
Actress Helen McCrory, 46, has played everyone from Medea to Cherie Blair as well as Polly Gray in Peaky Blinders. She’s married to actor Damian Lewis. They live in London and have two children, Manon, eight, and Gulliver, seven.
I grew up in Africa because my father was a diplomat. So I was lucky enough to grow up in a world without advertising. As a result, I’ve never judged myself on what I was supposed to look like. It’s good and bad. When it came to filming the second series of Peaky Blinders, I decided “I want Polly to look rougher, she should look haggard, life beaten, absolutely exhausted.” I then saw the first episode and remembered the adage, “Be careful what you wish for.”