2024 - Peaky Blinders: a poignant tribute to a star of the deceased series

This Sunday, February 27, the BBC One channel aired the first episode of the sixth season of Peaky Blinders. A reunion with the public placed under the sign of emotion because of the tribute paid to Helen McCrory, the interpreter of Aunt Polly, who died in April 2021.

She has distinguished herself both in cinema (Harry Potter, Skyfall) and on the small screen (Penny Dreadful, Fearless) during her long career. But if there is a role of Helen McCrory that has marked everyone’s mind, it is that of Polly Gray in the Peaky Blinders series. A magnetic presence that earned him praise from critics, like fans, and that the actress took with her when she died on April 16, 2021. Suffering from breast cancer, she died of the disease at only 52 years old. It was her husband, actor Damian Lewis (Homeland), who announced the sad news on social networks. Due to her medical condition, Helen McCrory had not taken part in the filming of the sixth season of Peaky Blinders which had started a few months before her death in January. This Sunday, watching the first episode of this new and final season of the program, fans were able to discover the beautiful tribute paid to the actress, through the funeral of Polly Gray, her character. The episode, titled Black Day, was “dedicated to the memory of Helen McCrory“.

Peaky Blinders: the emotion of the cast following the death of Helen McCrory

As entrusted by Sophie Rundle, the interpreter of Ada Thorne, in the pages of RadioTimes, the death of Helen McCrory has particularly upset the cast of Peaky Blinders. “It’s been devastating for all of us“, explained the actress before adding: “We had all been living the same adventure for ten years and, not seeing it there, everything seemed out of place and false. So, in the tribute, everything is real, this emotion. It was a real moment to think about her and what she had been.”

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