Peaky Blinders’ Cillian Murphy Reveals His Best Acting Advice for Son Aran Murphy
Spoilers for Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man ahead.
In the bleak midwinter, Tommy Shelby fought his last battle.
Though Cillian Murphy’s iconic gangster walked into exile when Peaky Blinders ended its run in 2022, the fate he’d escaped for six seasons caught up with him in the 1940-set Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, as he is fatally shot while foiling a Nazi plot that would defeat Britain and end the war for Germany. And for the Oscar winner, Tommy’s demise was inevitable as he candidly revealed if there was ever a scenario in which Tommy survived The Immortal Man.
“I don’t think so,” Cillian admitted to E! News in an exclusive interview. “I think that we all kind of felt like this would be the final chapter.”
And that chapter, penned by show creator Steven Knight, saw Tommy’s story come full circle—with his eldest son Duke Shelby (Barry Keoghan) at the head of the Peaky Blinders. It was Duke, too, who reluctantly pulled the final trigger at Tommy’s request, when it was clear he wouldn’t survive the gunshot wounds inflicted by their now-dead Nazi sympathizer foe Beckett (Tim Roth).
