Charlene McKenna: ‘The further you go, the further you have to fall’

Charlene McKenna is starring in three of the biggest TV shows of the year. She speaks to Jen Stevens about playing newlyweds, Holding, and working with Cillian Murphy

Charlene McKenna as Evelyn in Holding.

Charlene McKenna is on a high. She’s currently on our screens as ruthless IRA leader, Captain Swing in the brilliant final season of Peaky Blinders, she’s starring as Evelyn Ross in the TV adaptation of Graham Norton’s wonderful book Holding and she’s in the middle of filming the new series of the Jed Mercurio drama Bloodlands with James Nesbit.

She had been filming on the windswept County Down coast and got back to her Monaghan home at 2am the night before we speak.