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Breaking Baz: British Star Maxine Peake Has Plenty To Discuss About Her Extraordinary Role In Powerful FX Drama ‘Say Nothing’
Maxine Peake has a lot to say about ‘Say Nothing,’ the FX drama about the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland in the '70s. She talks with Deadline's Baz Bamigboye.
Peake was born and raised in the Greater Manchester district of Bolton in England, but it’s the blood of a militant republican from the Old Smoke that is Belfast that courses through her veins in her searing portrait of Dolours as she picks over, years after the fact, what she was willing to do to end the British rule in Northern Ireland and achieve reunification. Whether that involved robbing banks, ambushing British soldiers, setting off car bombs in London — including one parked outside the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court, that left 200 people injured — it was her duty for the cause. The gripping, and at times deeply poignant, nine-part series focuses on the Price sisters — the younger and older Marian’s are vividly depicted by Hazel Doupe and Helen Behan, respectively — and the abduction and disappearance of Jean McConville (Judith Roddy), a 37-year-old widowed mother of 10, wrongly accused by the IRA of being a British Army informant, and the arduous campaign by her children to find her remains.
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