The Australian star explains why playing Reggie Kray’s defiant wife Frances in crime biopic Legend makes a happy change from playing the ‘the hot babe’
As gritty roles for young female actors go, the chance to play Frances Shea, the doomed young bride of Kray twin Reggie, is up there with Karen Hill in Goodfellasand Eady in Heat. In the new Krays biopic Legend, Emily Browning’s Shea is not only pitted against Tom Hardy, who plays both gangsters, but is also the film’s narrator and moral centre. You see the brothers’ brutality through her eyes – and when she suffers, you suffer too.

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