“Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight talks about the “insane” characters in his new Epix drama, “Rogue Heroes,” about a group of real-life wreckless-but-brave …
“These men would go on their so-called ‘jollies’ [missions] and they would come back and rest up and go back and do it all over again,” said Knight, whose father fought for the British 8th Army in North African in World War II. “The enemy was completely baffled because they thought, ‘Well, I thought you’d left.’
“I hope it captures the tone of the people who were involved,” he said. “They were from public school, very posh or very working class and they just got on. Normally the British military is incredibly divided by class, and the SAS had all the extremes — but no division. “These were very young men and I had the good fortune to meet the only surviving member [of the unit],, who’s 101 and was 100 when I met him,” he said. “Just talking to him, even now, he had this sort of lightness about everything. He would say, ‘We were approaching the Italian machine guns and they fired three grenades and mortars. It wasn’t ideal.’ [Knight laughs.] That’s just how they were. There was a sort of madness about it, a recklessness … they were amused at the prospect of danger.
“There’s a scene near the beginning [of ‘Rogue Heroes’] where Stirling throws a hand grenade onto a snooker table [to clear the room out for a meeting],” Knight said. “That’s true, and it’s never been written down, but [Sadler] told me that story. What I changed was that, in the scene, it was a dummy hand-grenade — in reality it was a real one. That’s a classic example of how I had to tone it down.
While “Rogue Heroes” takes place during the early 1940s, its soundtrack includes some unusual choices, including “Borstal Breakout” courtesy of ’70s English punk band
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