Helen McCrory’s untimely passing had a big impact on the direction of “Peaky Blinders”. Season six of “Peaky Blinders” premiered on Sunday, Feb.
27. Show creator Steven Knight opened up about how McCrory’s death affected the show’s writing process and her character, Elizabeth “Polly” Gray. READ MORE: Damian Lewis Celebrates Late Wife Helen McCrory With Poetry Reading: ‘This Evening Is Dedicated To Her’ “We knew from series five that she was not well, but if we’d started shooting before the pandemic closed us down, she would have been in it, but probably not as extensively as she would have been normally,” Knight told Deadline. “Then, as the pandemic continued, we were told that Helen would be able to do less and less.” “So I was going back and rewriting.
It’s not a complete rewrite because it is a game of Jenga, but there are ways around it so I had to just keep adjusting them until in the end it was apparent that she wouldn’t be able to be in it at all.” McCrory, 52, died of breast cancer at her London home on April 16.
Her waning health forced Knight to pivot on his vision for “Peaky Blinders”. “Of course. You know, the thing is that real life intervenes and the loss of the human being Helen McCrory is the tragedy,” Knight said. “The loss and consequence to the character in the story is by comparison infinitesimal.
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