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Playwright David Hare and Peaky Blinders Creator Steven Knight Pay Tribute to Helen

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“She Lit Up the Screen”

by David Hare and Steven Knight | Radio Times | April 27, 2021

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One Saturday night in 1995 I sat down to watch a Screen Two film on BBC2. Streetlife, written and directed by Karl Francis, was about a single mother in a caravan in Wales, struggling to provide for her young child.

Although the material was bleak – Jo kills her child because she despairs of her future – it was played with the most extraordinary humour and vitality by a young actor I’d never seen before. She wore a tiny mini skirt, sparked with brave life, and gave one of the most moving performances I’d ever seen on TV.

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The Chap: RIP Helen McCrory

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Remembering an inspiring encounter with Helen McCrory

Gustav Temple | April 17, 2021 | The Chap

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As a tribute to the late actress, who died aged 52 on 16th April, Gustav Temple recalls an inspiring encounter with Helen McCrory in 2019, on the eve of Series 5 of Peaky Blinders.

I interviewed Helen McCrory when the fifth season of Peaky Blinders was about to air in 2019. From such a huge star of stage and screen, I expected the familiar ‘luvvy’ personality and being called ‘darling’ interspersed with quotes from Shakespeare, but Helen was the complete opposite. When asked whether we had accurately described the type of cigarettes she smoked in character as Aunt Polly, she waved her hand airily and said, “Oh, who cares? Let’s not let the facts get in the way of a good story.”

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VIDEO: The Peaky Blinders Cast on Returning for Season 5 | BFI Q&A

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Peaky Blinders cast members Helen McCrory and Sophie Rundle join writer-creator Steven Knight, executive producer Caryn Mandabach and new cast member Sam Claflin at the BFI Southbank to talk about the fifth season of the BBC’s Birmingham-set gangster drama.

 

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Helen McCrory on why she loves playing Peaky Blinders’ Polly Gray

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Plus, why Aunt Polly is Misunderstood

by Megan Sutton | August 8, 2019 | Good Housekeeping

Although in real life most of us strive to be good citizens, for actors there’s lots of fun to be had in pretending to be someone with a darker side. That’s certainly true for Peaky Blinders star Helen McCrory, who much prefers playing a baddie.

“It’s much more fun, it’s loads of fun playing the baddie,” she told press including Goodhousekeeping.com/uk at a preview ahead of Peaky Blinders season five.

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