Cillian Murphy drops major hints about Netflix's upcoming 'Peaky Blinders' film adaptation

Cillian Murphy has opened up about reprising his role as Tommy Shelby in the upcoming Peaky Blinders film, The Immortal Man. 

In a new interview, the Irish actor described preparing for the role as a conscious process, noting it involved both reading and physical conditioning. He 

“But after a certain point, there is a sort of a blurring of lines between me and him. It doesn’t happen instantaneously. But it’s deeply satisfying,” Murphy told The Independent.

The Oscar he won for Oppenheimer in 2024 changed nothing, Murphy insisted. “That was this wonderful, crazy, sort of hallucinogenic moment,” he told the magazine. “But my taste and my values had remained the same.”

The film, set six years after the series finale, finds Tommy hollowed out by grief, isolated in his country estate, and haunted by the loss of his family. Despite this, Murphy insisted the story can be watched by new viewers without having seen the original series. 

“Someone who’d never watched it could approach this as a standalone. Which I think is the beauty of it,” he added.

Murphy also highlighted the contrast between film and long-form storytelling. “Long-form television is like a novel,” he noted. “A film is a short story. You have to have a very definite beginning, middle, and end. You have to pay things off.”