Peaky Blinders’ Cillian Murphy reveals his best acting advice to son Alan Murphy
Contains spoilers for “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal”.
In the cold midwinter, Tommy Shelby fought his final battle.
Cillian Murphy’s iconic gangster went into exile when Peaky Blinders ended in 2022, but in Peaky Blinders, set in 1940, the fate of six seasons on the run catches him, fatally shot while trying to thwart a Nazi plot to overthrow Britain and end the war in Germany. And for the Oscar winner, Tommy’s death was inevitable, as he candidly revealed whether there was ever a scenario in which he would survive in The Immortals.
“I don’t think so,” Kylian admitted to E! News from an exclusive interview. “I think we all felt like this was going to be the final chapter.”
The chapter, written by show creator Steven Knight, brings Tommy’s story full circle, with his eldest son Duke Shelby (Barry Keoghan) taking over as leader of the Peaky Blinders. It was Duke who reluctantly pulled the final trigger at Tommy’s request when it became clear that his late Nazi sympathizer Beckett (Tim Roth) would not survive the gunshot wound he sustained.
