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Peaky Blinders creator defends show’s violence after Helen McCrory brands it ‘disgusting’


Stephen Knight has come to the show’s defense after Helen McCrory branded violence ‘disgusting’ (Picture: Getty Images/BBC)

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has defended the shows level of violence, after cast member Helen McCrory complained that it was ‘disgusting’.

The 59-year-old screenwriter, whose show returns to screens on 25 August, has said that there will be ‘depictions of violence’ due to the show focusing on gangsters, but always tries to ‘show the consequences’ of the violence as well.

‘It’s about gangsters so inevitably there are depictions of violence,’ said Steven.

‘But I always try to show the consequences of that violence, rather than the characters dusting themselves off and they’re fine again.’

Helen McCrory, who plays Polly Gray, reveals she has to look away from the scene whenever violence is about to be shown (Picture: Ben Blackall)

Steven also argues that it is ‘important’ to display such violent acts in the series and the consequences such violence will have on the show’s characters.

In a new interview with The Mirror, he said: ‘The worst sort of violence is when it is depicted without consequences as if it is just easy.’

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This comes after cast member Helen, who plays the role of Polly Gray, admitted that the upcoming fifth season of the BBC series was so violent, that she ‘looks away from the screen’ when a violent scene is about to be broadcast.

‘I look away from the screen. I can’t watch it. I think it’s ­disgusting, gratuitous violence.’

However, she also admitted that the violence portrayed in the crime drama ‘should be horrifying’.

‘You should have the people who are responsible for the violence unable to self-medicate or having mental health ­problems, or all the things that do happen if you kill other people.’

The actress also previously admitted that she had considered quitting the series ahead of the premiere of the fifth season.

She previously told Metro.co.uk that she had been complementing between taking up an ‘offer of another thing’ with someone who she thinks ‘is one of the most talented people.’

‘I have had a weekend of considering just this, with a wonderful, wonderful offer of another thing, with someone I think is one of the most talented people,’ she revealed.

‘I said no, and came back to this, because I feel it’s given me so much, and I think that you behave well in some things and see it through to the end if somebody wants you to.’

Season five of Peaky Blinders will premiere at 9PM on BBC One on 25 August.



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