Cillian Murphy has dismissed the theory that his Peaky Blinders character Tommy Shelby harboured a secret death wish, ahead of the release of the follow-up film The Immortal Man on Netflix.
The Irish actor, who has played the traumatised Birmingham gangster since the BBC series debuted in 2013, addressed fan questions on Reddit. One fan asked if Tommy 'secretly wanted to lose everything' to atone for past mistakes.
Murphy responded: 'I don't think he's ever had a specific death wish. I think that his experiences in the First World War were so profoundly altering to him, to his psyche and to his belief system, that he never ever recovered and became completely unafraid of the concept of death.'
The film, set nearly a decade after the season six finale, follows an older Tommy returning from exile to face his son Erasmus, played by Barry Keoghan, who has taken over the family business. It premiered in cinemas on 6th March and arrives on Netflix on 20th March.
Murphy also revealed his extensive music playlist for the role, saying: 'I've had an ever-rolling increasing playlist for Peaky since the beginning... it must be thousands of hours long.'
