Breaking Baz: British Star Maxine Peake Has Plenty To Discuss About Her Extraordinary Role In Powerful FX Drama ‘Say Nothing’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: There’s fire and anger in Maxine Peake’s portrayal of Dolours Price in new FX drama Say Nothing.
Price, in her younger years, was one of the Irish Republican Army’s most feared paramilitary operatives, responsible, along with her younger sister Marian, for atrocities in London and Northern Ireland during the so-called Troubles.
Peake abhors that phrase. “It’s such a flimsy word, isn’t it?” she argues. “The country was occupied, the English came, and it was a war.” The Troubles, she continues, is a feeble way of describing “something so horrific and something that the legacy continues on and on.” Peake is one of the best actors of her generation.
She’s an expert comedienne — watch her in Dinnerladies,Inside No. 9 or Shameless — and a breathtaking dramatic thespian. Witness her in dramas such as Little Dorrit, Silk and The Village and movies that include Peterloo and new film Words of War, directed by James Strong.
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