By Helenistic | helen-mccrory.com | February 26, 2022
Cillian Murphy talks about Peaky Blinders and his close pal Helen McCrory in the following interview with the BBC.
“It’s almost a decade of people’s lives. We’ve been through a lot together.”
Cillian Murphy looks back on an incredible six series of the iconic Peaky Blinders.
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By Ellie Jorizzo | PA Entertainment | February 25, 2022
By BBC.co.uk | February 22, 2022
When Steven Knight came to populate the world of Peaky Blinders he didn’t have to invent strong, female characters.
“Having come from a working-class background, and in Birmingham, the women run the show. It was never a question of saying, ‘I’m going to deliberately put some strong women in it…’ It was more like, ‘just look out the window,’ you know, ‘look at what really is happening.’”
During the First World War, he points out, when the men were away, “women did everything.” And so when the men came back – the jumping off point for Peaky Blinders – that wasn’t going to just stop.
“The idea that you’d have this environment where the women were completely subservient?” Knight says. “Nonsense. No, it wasn’t like that. And it isn’t like that. So it’s just a question of reflecting reality.”
The untimely death of British actress Helen McCrory, left the nation shocked, after she lost her battle with cancer last April at the age of just 52. Fans, her loved ones and the cast of Peaky Blinders are all still grieving the terrible loss, with Natasha O’Keeffe revealing she sometimes found herself talking to her on-set of the latest series.
Helen, who played Aunt Polly in the hit BBC drama, won’t appear in the new season but creator Steven Knight, reassured fans they’ll see a tribute to the late actress.