US EditionCillian Murphy looks back on Peaky Blinders success
Cillian Murphy marks 13 years playing Tommy Shelby as the Peaky Blinders finale film premieres, exploring family and wartime challenges in the character's life.
- On March 20, Netflix will release Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, and Cillian Murphy said his 13-year role is one he will never experience again.
- Murphy said, 'In order for us to conclude with a film, it needed to justify itself. Ultimately, that comes down to the script' to justify the story as a father-and-son drama with Duke.
- The film opens in Sachsenhausen concentration camp on November 19, 1940, showing Nazi counterfeiting and bombings that killed 900 people, while Tommy Shelby lives near Dublin with his family and confronts his illegitimate son Erasmus "Duke" Shelby, played by Barry Keoghan, Irish actor.
- After the TV series ended in 2022, the Netflix two-hour film is presented as the true finale and a fitting cap to the drama, with father-and-son scenes giving Cillian Murphy scope to display restraint and stillness.
- Murphy says the war backdrop tests Tommy Shelby's values and shapes him as a product of the First World War, emotionally crippled and haunted, influencing his behaviour.
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Sydney Morning Herald
‘A completely unique freak experience’: Stepping back into Peaky Blinders is never easy for Cillian Murphy
The acclaimed Irish actor rarely revisits a role, but there’s something about Irish gangster Tommy Shelby he can’t shake.
Evening Standard
Cillian Murphy says he will ‘never experience’ a role like Peaky Blinders again
The Cork-born actor fronted the award-winning series for almost a decade.
The Independent
The Independent (US)Cillian Murphy reflects on 13 years as Tommy Shelby: ‘I feel immensely proud’
‘I’ll never experience that again, and it’s really unusual and gratifying to have that opportunity to play a character like that,’ says Murphy
Four years after the end of the sixth season, Steven Knight brings us back to Birmingham, this time at the beginning of World War II, for Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, a film directed by Tom Harper from March 20 on Netflix. At the center always he: Cillian Murphy's Tommy Shelby. Forced to return from a self-imposed exile, with the future of his family and of his country in play, the man must clash with his demons and choose whether to face h…
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