Cillian Murphy Says It Felt ‘Very Strange’ Filming ‘Peaky Blinders’ Without The Late Helen McCrory

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaKenneth Branagh, fresh off the Oscar-nominated success of “Belfast,” will reunite with Christopher Nolan on “Oppenheimer.” The two have previously teamed up on “Dunkirk” and “Tenet.” Branagh will play an unspecified role in the ambitious and pricey look at J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in creating the atomic bomb. Branagh recently starred in “Death on the Nile” and earned Academy Award nods for directing, producing and writing “Belfast.” Universal Pictures and Syncopy also announced Tuesday that principal photography has commenced on the film and revealed a moody first look of star Cillian Murphy as J.

Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy has revealed that he visited various Birmingham boozers to help him perfect Tommy Shelby's accent.

Award-winning period drama Peaky Blinders - inspired by a real crime gang from Birmingham - has gripped the nation since 2013 and it’s back for its sixth and final season this year.The last nine years have been a wild ride for the cast, including lead actor Cillian Murphy who plays crime boss Tommy Shelby.The Irish actor is famous for his roles in 28 Days Later, Inception and Batman Begins, but even he had to admit transforming into Tommy was a tricky task. Cillian told Radio Times: “I’m not a physically imposing person. I have to eat a lot of protein and lift a lot of weights - that takes a while, which I hate.” Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter .

Cillian Murphy has spoken on his preparation for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, noting the similarities to his role of Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders.The actor will take on the role of the American theoretical physicist, whose work on the Manhattan Project led to the moniker the “father of the atomic bomb”, in Nolan’s new film.Ahead of its release next year, Murphy has opened up a bit about his work on the character, revealing in a new interview with The Observer that he has been doing “an awful lot of reading”.“I’m interested in the man and what [inventing the atomic bomb] does to the individual,” he said. “The mechanics of it, that’s not really for me – I don’t have the intellectual capability to understand them, but these contradictory characters are fascinating.”Comparing Oppenheimer to the paradoxical nature of Shelby, he went on to explain: “Tommy Shelby’s a complete contradiction, too.

It's not long now until the sixth and final season of Steven Knight's gritty and violent drama Peaky Blinders returns to our screens.

Peaky Blinders saying that it will “honour” late actor Helen McCrory.McCrory, who played Polly Gray in the BBC series, died aged 52 from cancer in April last year – when filming on the sixth season had been halted due to the coronavirus pandemic.Opening up about the new season, Murphy said he thinks it will be a “tribute” to her.He told Variety: “I think the whole series is really in tribute to her and to honour her. Her presence and her character’s presence are very much still felt in the series, and it is very much part of Tommy’s journey in the season.“It’ll be different without her, you know.

The release date for the new season of Peaky Blinders has been revealed in a creative way in Birmingham.

K.J. Yossman BBC drama “Peaky Blinders” has set a premiere date for its sixth and final season.The show, led by Cillian Murphy, will return on Feb. 27.Murphy plays Tommy Shelby in the hit series.BBC revealed the news with an enormous mural painted on the side of a wall in Birmingham of Murphy’s face, which was tweeted with the caption: “The Shelbys are back in business.”The mural was created by by street artist Akse.

BBC One has set the premiere date for the sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders with the award-winning period gangster saga set to return on February 27 at 9pm in the UK. The date was made official this morning in Birmingham, home to the fictional Shelby clan, via a 42-foot high mural looming over Digbeth’s Old Crown (see it in full below).

Peaky Blinders virtual reality game has been officially announced – you can check out the first trailer below.Set to be released in 2022, Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom is described as an action-adventure VR game where players will “infiltrate the Peaky Blinders underground world, coming face-to-face with much-loved and much-feared characters”.Cillian Murphy (Tommy Shelby) and Paul Anderson (Arthur Shelby) will reprise their roles for the title, which will also feature brand new characters.Players will also be able to freely explore recreated environments seen in the show, like the Garrison Pub, Charlie’s Yard and Shelby’s Betting Shop.Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom is developed by Maze Theory, who previously worked on the Doctor Who VR game Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time.While platforms are yet to be announced, Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time released across PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest and HTC Vive – so this is expected to follow suit.The sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders is expected to premiere later this month, although an exact release date has yet to be announced.Creator Steven Knight has recently said the show’s story will now continue beyond World War Two in a planned film following the sixth season.Speaking about the original scope to Empire, Knight said: “It was always Britain between the wars – how the lesson from one war was not learned and was repeated. It’s also the end of empire: we enter the Second World War and by the end of it, there is no empire, really.

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