Exclusive: Malachi Kirby & creator/ executive producer Steven Knight talk A Thousand Blows Season 2
Currently streaming on Hulu is the second season to A Thousand Blows, created, written and executive produced by Steven Knight.
Returning for season two are Malachi Kirby as Hezekiah, Erin Doherty as Mary Carr, Stephen Graham as Sugar Goodson, James Nelson-Joyce, Darci Shaw, Hannah Walters, Nadia Albina, Morgan Hilaire, Jemma Carlton, Caoilfhionn Dunne, Jason Tobin, Susan Lynch, Daniel Mays, Gary Lewis, Aliyah Odoffin and Robert Glenister. Ned Dennehy and Catherine McCormack join the ensemble for season two.
Inspired by the true-life stories of a group of characters battling for survival in the brutal East End of London in the 1880s. One year later, Hezekiah's a shadow of the man he once was whilst Sugar Goodson is estranged from his family and drinking himself to death. Just as Wapping is about to sigh its last breath, Mary Carr bursts back into town with her loyal second, Alice Diamond, to reassemble her gang and reclaim her crown. As always, Mary has a plan; one which will involve all those she holds dearest. And this time it's riskier than ever.
Season 2 is executive produced by Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters for Matriarch Productions, Damian Keogh and Kate Lewis for The Story Collective, Tom Miller and Sam Myer for Water & Power Productions, and Jonny Richards for Disney+ EMEA.
Blackfilmandtv.com's Wilson Morales talks to Malachi Kirby & creator/ executive producer Steven Knight on Hulu's A Thousand Blows Season 2