“Charlie doesn't appear in Legend at all,” I said. “Maybe they thought it would be too complicated for American audiences to have twins and a third brother.” “The Twins didn't like the first film,” Micky told me. “They hated Charlie for it all the rest of his life.”
Ms Flannagan revealed that the Krays particularly disliked scenes that featured their mother, who was played by Billie Whitelaw, because the film showed her swearing. Ronnie told her “they hated the film” for that reason and felt that director Peter Medak had taken creative liberties with his adaptation.
Kray said he found life difficult and claimed he was "unemployable" because of his surname. On the evening of 4 April 2000, Kray died from heart complications at St Mary's Hospital. He was 72. He had been suffering from a heart condition prior to his death.
They base the film mostly on the love story between Reggie and Frances and he really did love her and she did love him. Remember she's got this older, good-looking, immaculately dressed businessman boyfriend and she's a little 18-year-old from the east end and never been up the west to a nightclub.
A graphic at the end shows Reggie was convicted and sent to prison until he was granted compassionate release just 2 months prior to his cancer-related death in 2000. Ron was convicted, declared insane and remained committed until his death in 1995.
The KRAY Twins - LEGEND. Why did their criminal empire collapse? Real story
How realistic is Legend?
A former associate of the Krays, Freddie Foreman, told The Sun that while watching Hardy on screen was "uncanny" and like "seeing the twins reincarnated", the film gets the relationship between Reggie and his wife, Frances Shea, totally wrong.
Despite an almost 10-year age gap, Franie and Reggie fell in love and were married, but she tragically ended her own life by taking an overdose just two years later. She suffered from mental health problems and was only 23.
The true story of London's most notorious gangsters, twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray. As the brothers rise through the criminal underworld, Ronnie advances the family business with violence and intimidation while Reggie struggles to go legitimate for local girl Frances Shea.
While Reg was in prison, he married Roberta Jones, who was helping to publicise a film she was making about Ronnie two years after his death. Following his terminal bladder cancer diagnosis, Reggie was freed from prison on compassionate grounds by Home Secretary Jack Straw in August 2000.
Nancy's older brother Gary was handicapped from birth so 'he was my big little brother. He didn't know how to play with his toys, so I showed him. We had our own sign language. We used to get my dad to come upstairs where we played tricks on him!
As a result, Scotland Yard opens a full investigation of the Kray brothers. Reg's marriage with Frances crumbles due to his addiction to crime. Unable to bear Reg's false promises to reform, Frances starts consuming prescription drugs illegally. After he beats and rapes her in a fit of rage, she leaves him.
Ronnie Kray spent 16 years in Broadmoor Hospital after being judged to be criminally insane and died in 1995. Mr Dinenage interviewed the twins on multiple occasions and said he found this particular clip in his loft from the 1980s.
Officially, neither Ronnie or Reggie had any children on record. However, one woman claims she is the secret daughter of Reggie who didn't want to know her. Sandra Ireson, a 62-year-old mother and gran, claims was born after a brief romance between Reggie and cabaret dancer Greta Harper in 1958.
In the film, Reg and Frances's eight-week marriage falls apart when he beats her up and rapes her. In real life, Frances insisted Reg was never physically violent towards her. Several friends of theirs have corroborated this.
Legend is a good entertaining movie about the legendary Kray brothers even though it's more about Frances, the wife of Reggie Kray, narrating her point of view regarding the whole situation. Personally I preferred The Krays from 1990 with the Kemp brothers (from Spandau Ballet) playing the twin brothers.
Ronnie and Reggie Kray were twins born in Hoxton, East London, on October 23rd 1933 who became the most feared gangsters in the city during the 1950's and 1960's. They became involved in protection rackets, armed robberies, arson, assaults, and two murders in front of witnesses.
Reggie refused to leave her alone, and by 1967, the reconciled as a couple but not yet living together. Reggie Kray abused Frances physically and emotionally. Reggie Kray's brother Ronnie was homosexual; even Reggie was claimed to be bisexual. After their death, documents revealed that they had an incest relationship.
Twin brother Ronnie was best man, natch, and to help with the media frenzy, the place was surrounded by steely looking men called 'Big Pat' and 'The Dodger'.
When Reggie Kray met Frances, he was 26 and she was ten years his junior. The Kray twins were already notorious in London's gangland, while Frances worked as a secretary. She was described by those who knew her as “shy and innocent”.
Tom Cruise reportedly wasn't happy with the American cut of this movie and wouldn't talk about it for years because of it. He very much encouraged fans to go with the Director's Cut.
Starring a 22-year-old Tom Cruise (Top Gun Maverick) and 16-year-old Mia Sara (Ferris Bueller's Day Off), Legend is a beautifully filmed (if not particularly complex) allegory about the power of true love and the eternal struggle of good vs. evil.
Jessica Brain. Peaky Blinders, now a hit television programme, may be a fictional story of the Birmingham underworld but it is based on the very real existence of a gang by the same name based in the Midlands in the late nineteenth century.
Their honeymoon was spent in Athens, not in Dover, as is shown in the film, wherein Frances is played by Kate Hardie. Two months after the marriage, the bride left her husband and returned to live with her parents. One month after that, she attempted suicide by taking an overdose of barbituates.
In her diary, Frances described her lonely life at their flat in London's Marble Arch where she lived when she was 25. Her entries are written in abbreviated form, but tell a harrowing story.
Tom Hardy had 35 shooting days in which he played both brothers on the same day. He would film the scenes with the brother who had the most dialogue first, then go back into hair and make-up to be transformed into the other brother.
