'MobLand' Episode 2: Anson Boon on 'unique relationship' with Helen Mirren on show

Yahoo

06-04-2025

While MobLand on Paramount+ is a classic Guy Ritchie British gangster story, Episode 2 reveals a particularly interesting relationship between Maeve Harrigan (Helen Mirren) and her grandson Eddie Harrigan (Anson Boon). After Eddie stabs Tommy Stevenson (Felix Edwards) on a night out, he causes issues for his grandfather, Conrad Harrigan (Pierce Brosnan), with the rival crime family, the Stevensons.
In Episode 2 Eddie arrives at his grandparents home with a big hug from Maeve. As tensions are escalating between gangs, Eddie feels like he's being perceived as a "f**k up," but finds comfort with his grandmother who lives by the rule that, "[If] a man disrespects you, take care of it. That's the Harrigan way."
She also wants to know how Eddie felt felt stabbing Tommy, and she's satisfied when his response is, "It felt f**king great."
And that's when Maeve puts her hand in her bra and takes out a baggy of cocaine for her grandson. "Nan of the year," Eddie says.
It's not the most typical grandson-grandmother relationship, but Boon teased to Yahoo Canada that throughout the rest of the season their relationship goes to "very strange" and "dark" places.
My wife's the brains behind the charm.
She holds me together.
That makes her the most dangerous of all.
The second you lose trust in me is the second this family turns to dust.
I need to ask about the scene in episode 2 with you and Helen Mirren.
Um, where she's like comforting you and then it pulls the cocaine out as she's asking what it felt like to to do what you did.
I mean, just an amazing scene all around circumstances, dialogue.
What was it like to be able to kind of play with that?
So so much fun.
I mean, it's not every day that you get to film a scene with.
Helen Mirren, so, you know, whatever the scene was about, that was already just amazing.
But also, I guess in under normal circumstances you would expect that if a grandson had a bad drug habit, it wouldn't be enabled by his grandma, but she's, you know, as you've seen, absolutely egging him on.
So they have a really fun, unique relationship as a grandmother and grandson, um, and I most certainly don't want to spoil anything about it cos it does go to some very strange dark places, as you'll learn as you watch the rest of the show.
They're a little bit of a team.
Um, and yeah, getting to play that out with Helen, and that scene, obviously directed by Guy Ritchie, it was just so much fun.
Yeah, and we, unfortunately, we shot it so fast because me and Helen were so excited to film this scene because it was so much fun.
We both came in really prepared, we'd thought about it, we'd spoken about it before, we'd rehearsed it.
And I, I, I wish that that scene took 2 days to film, honestly, because we had so much fun doing it.