AS viewers flocked to complain about the graphic violence in Sky Atlantic's Gangs of London its star and director are defending it.
Not longer after the acclaimed drama hit screens, people complaing about having nightmares and not being able to get through episodes of the drama which follows the aftermath of the death of major London crime boss, Finn Wallace.
Dubbed the "most violent British drama ever" some viewers even took their gripes to the communications regulator Ofcom. But for Sope Dirisu the actor who plays Elliot Finch the hard man who works his way up the Wallace family ranks by smashing heads and taking down dangerous enemies, the violent scenes were not "harrowing" to film.
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