'You see why Polly's in charge' Helen McCrory teases new Peaky Blinders
HELEN MCCRORY has given a slight hint as to what fans can expect from the next season of Peaky Blinders; not due to hit the air until 2017.
Helen McCrory stars in Peaky Blinders
The latest run of the hit drama recently came to an end on BBC Two, and - appearing on The Andrew Marr Show this morning - the star, who plays Aunt Polly, hinted that fans will be able to see "why she's in charge".
"When the men came back from the First World War, she'd been running the business while they'd been away," she explained.
"When Tommy (Cillian Murphy) comes back, the complexity she must go through to hand over her business to men that have been so brutalised by the First World War, as far as she's concerned they're doing it really badly.
"They're making mistakes, they're going in to other people's turfs."
The show is a huge hit for BBC Two
Helen McCrory plays Aunt Polly
You see why she's in charge
She continued: "Her ability to, on one hand balance a business, on the other hand balance the family and be able to want to expand down to London and abroad…
"We're about to see in the new Peaky Blinders, go further and further afield… You see why she's in charge."
Andrew Marr asked Helen if she would agree that Peaky Blinders is the first major UK drama to put the country's output on the same level as the big-budget US epics such as Homeland.
"We have a fantastic tradition in this country of gritty realism, and we should be very proud of them," she reasoned.
She talked about the show with Marr today
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"But Steve Knight has done something we don't normally like doing, which is blow our own trumpet and glamorise our past. And he's done it with a bunch of crims from Birmingham!"
Helen is currently starring in The Deep Blue Sea at the National Theatre.
Peaky Blinders returns to BBC Two in 2017.