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Breaking Baz: Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz’ Recreates Bombing Raids On London As Seen Through The Eyes Of Brave 9-Year-Old Boy
Baz Bamigboye speaks with Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen about 'Blitz,' his film about the Nazis' WWII bombing attacks on London: Breaking Baz column.
Many of the film’s characters — air-raid wardens, musicians and folk who managed the bomb shelters, especially ones located deep in the tunnels of London Underground stations — are based on real people. Rita, the boy’s mother (played with heart and gritty determination by Saoirse Ronan) raises him along with her dad (a fine Paul Weller) in a terrace house they all share in East London. Blitz triggered a lot of memories for me, having worked in the East End in the mid-1970s, covering a patch for a local newspaper that stretched from Bethnal Green across to Stepney, Poplar, Bow and the Docks.
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