Stephen Graham is red-faced and fidgeting in a London hotel alongside Malachi Kirby and Erin Doherty, his co-stars in A Thousand Blows. I explained how my partner had initially dismissed the gritty period drama on account of all the brutal boxing bouts. But after seeing a glimpse of an extremely hench, shirtless and sweating Graham, she decided that she probably would be able to join me in watching after all.
“I don’t know what to say,” says Graham, as Kirby and Doherty tease him. “If that’s what it takes to get bums on seats, I’ll go with it.”
