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Steven Knight & Cast Of ‘A Thousand Blows’ Talk Combining Bare-Knuckle Boxing With Female Gangs In Disney+’s Victorian Drama Series
'A Thousand Blows': Steven Knight, Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty have talked Disney+ series about boxing and female gangs.
In what was an incredible bout of serendipity, Kirby’s agents soon after received the scripts for A Thousand Blow s. Steven Knight ‘s latest drama series spotlights Hezekiah Moscow, who was indeed a real-life bare-knuckle boxer who journeyed from the Caribbean to London in the late Victorian era. One of the biggest swings taken since Disney+ set up in the UK, A Thousand Blows stars Stephen Graham and The Crown’s Erin Doherty and follows the fortunes of Hezekiah and his best friend Alec (Francis Lovehall), who arrive from Jamaica to the English capital. Doherty, who played Queen Anne in The Crown and stars alongside Graham in Netflix’s upcoming Adolescence one-take thriller, says the industry has also moved on from a time when there was a “lull” for female actors trying to get work between the ages of 30 and 50.
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