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The new series will pick up after a second-series finale during which Shelby avoided execution in a muddy field. He’s shot both enemies and friends in the head. He’s endured beatings, bullets to the chest, amateurish and punitive dentistry. By my count, Murphy’s character gets a cocked gun pressed to his temple at least once an episode. Knife fights are not infrequent, but it would be an uncharacteristically benign episode of Peaky Blinders were Tommy Shelby to be threatened only with razors. The drama, written by Steven Knight, is named for Tommy’s gang of crooks – known as “Peaky Blinders” because of the razor blades, or blinders, they keep hidden in the folds of their peaked caps. We agree it seems most unlikely, in the show’s immediate future, that the character of Tommy Shelby will wring his hands and ponder the existentials of turning 40. Photograph: BBC/Tiger Aspect/Robert Viglasky If you can maintain it.”Īs Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders. “It’s only an advantage as an actor,” he smiles when I point this out, “looking younger than you are. We meet in a London park on a bright and chilly spring day, and it strikes me that Murphy (slender, slouching, his cheeks reddened by cold and a long fringe swept boyishly to one side) would not look out of place with a muddy football under his arm. It’s funny to hear Murphy speak this way about getting on, especially because the 39-year-old could still be mistaken, at first glance, for a teenager.
Now I’m ready for a bit more… decorum, I guess? A bit more moderation? Still enjoying being a young man, but looking over the wall into the other side, you know?”
I had a really good time in my 20s and 30s. “I feel like I’m entering a different phase of my life,” he says. These days, this is not even an uncommon scenario. Last night, he says, he was in bed by 10, falling asleep to the comforting murmur of The World Tonight on Radio 4. But neither does he sound histrionic or weepy. “Just a couple of months.” A placid and even-spoken man, Cork-born and with an iron Corkonian modesty at the core of him, Murphy does not sound overjoyed about his approaching milestone.
“I’ll be turning 40,” the Irish actor says. S oon it will be Cillian Murphy’s birthday.
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