Cillian Murphy opens up about filming Peaky Blinders without Helen McCrory
msn.comPeaky Blinders co-star Helen McCrory who sadly passed away from breast cancer last April. Speaking to Esquire UK, the actor opened up about how difficult it was filming the sixth series of the show without Helen, who he described as: "a magnificent person".
He said: "We were just reeling throughout the whole thing. She was a dear, dear pal and she was the beating heart of that show, so it felt very strange being on set without her. " Cillian, who plays Tommy Shelby on the show, also previously explained in an interview with Empire, that Helen would have been in the upcoming series had it not been for the coronavirus pandemic which delayed filming: "What I always feel sad about is that we were about to shoot and then the pandemic happened and we had to stop. "He has now opened up to explain: "The difficult thing to comprehend is that, if it wasn't for Covid, there would be a whole other version of this show with Helen in it.
But she was so private and so f---ing brave and courageous. "This tribute to Helen follows a special poetry night organised by her husband Damien Lewis in January.
Speaking out for the first time since her death, Damien dedicated the night to Helen and read the poem ‘Everything Is Going To Be Alright’ by Derek Mahon.
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