Peaky Blinders Has Finished Filming Its Final Season

 

It appears filming has finally wrapped on the last season of Peaky Blinders.

The show's director, Anthony Byrne, has shared a post on Instagram stating that the cast and crew are 'Done & Done & Done'.

While this is epic news because it brings us one step closer to seeing the final instalment of the legendary TV show, it's also bittersweet because this is the last time it will happen.

It's already been confirmed Season 6 will be the final chapter of Tommy Shelby and the Peaky Blinders gang and everyone wants to know how it will end and who will survive.

Speaking to Men's Health, the actor who embodies Mr Shelby so well, Cillian Murphy, said it will be weird to finally say goodbye to the character.

"It'll be very strange. I think probably when I stop, like a few months in, I'll have to process the fact that I may not play him again. I'll have to deal with that. But right now, I'm just still in it," he said.

He added that it's been tough shooting the final scenes without the incredible Helen McCrory, who played Polly, the matriarch of the Shelby family.

"We're all still deeply, deeply saddened. I'm deeply saddened and still trying to get over it. It's hard to think of the series without her. She was so much a part of that," he said.

"And always my favourite storylines were the Polly/Tommy storylines."

Cillian said the whole season will be dedicated to her.

As for when we'll get to feast our eyes and ears on the series: that's anyone's guess. It will have to go through all the usual editing and overlay processes and there will likely be a massive finale premiere to give the cast and crew a chance to say goodbye to all their adoring fans.

Director Bryne said the editing process for previous seasons has taken at least six months so you can tap that onto your calendar.

Cillian hasn't yet thought of what he'll do now that filming is done however he has already had his first big screen appearance in A Quiet Place II.

While this might spell the end of Peaky Blinders the TV show, creator Steven Knight has always said he wants to end the franchise with a movie. So while they might be wrapping the series for good, there's still a little more of the story to be told.

Cillian Murphy has smoked over Thousands cigarettes playing Tommy Shelby? See How Much Accurately!

 

Tommy Shelby is almost never without a cigarette in hand in Peaky Blinders, puffing away pensively as he devises ways to outmanoeuvre his rivals.

“People did smoke all day [back then] and it just became a Tommy thing,” Cillian explained of his character’s habit. Actors have long since stopped smoking actual cigarettes for filming, but Murphy said he had put away a ton of the (much less harmful) herbal ones now preferred by the industry.

“There were these rose cigarettes that are herbal - Steve [Knight, the creator] would joke they're one of your five a day.

“I asked the prop guys to count how many I smoked just out of interest, and they think it's something like 3,000.”

Prop departments have a number of tricks up their sleeves when it comes to depicting drugs, switching out alcohol for coloured water and cocaine for powdered milk, baking soda or vitamin B powder, the latter of which is often used as by dealers as a cutting agent in actual cocaine.

Peaky Blinders returns for its third season next month, the first full-length trailer having dropped over the weekend.

Look out for our interview with the creator Steven Knight later in the week.

"I don't just want to be known as the guy in Peaky Blinders" Joe Cole SNAPPED IN THE INTERVIEW!

In the 2012 indie action film Offender, Joe Cole punches a police officer in the face, then knees another in the stomach. In the gruesome horror Green Room (2015), he chokes a neo-Nazi skinhead into a state of unconsciousness. In last year’s acclaimed prison drama A Prayer Before Dawn, he takes beating after beating, and delivers his fair share too, from the confines of a Thai prison. And as the youngest of the three Shelby brothers in the BBC crime series Peaky Blinders – for which the 30-year-old is perhaps best known – he blows up a train, robs someone at gunpoint and stabs a man in the eye. “It’s been quite therapeutic playing those roles,” says Cole, “because you can be a bit of a lunatic, and people applaud you, rather than cuff you and put you behind bars.”

The southwest London actor, who stars in the new Channel 4 comedy drama Pure, has the kind of face that has been described by The Observer as “angelic”, and The Guardian as “weirdly cherubic”. So it’s strange that he’s ended up attracting parts where it so often takes a pummelling, or curls into a troubled snarl as he pummels someone else. But it is precisely this juxtaposition, the flicker of fear, trauma or indeed rage sitting just behind that veil of innocence, that makes Cole so compelling to watch.

Cole doesn’t play “baddies”, he insists from the set of Gareth Evans’s forthcoming Sky/HBO series Gangs of London. He’s just often drawn to characters with dark, aggressive tendencies. “There’s a physical element to some of those roles,” he says in his Estuary lilt. “I found it quite easy to connect to that side of me on a deeper level, and summon the emotion and the aggression. I could really feel that. You can really let yourself go.”

After roles on The Bill and Holby City, rites of passage for any British upstart, Cole’s first taste of this kind of character was as the charming reprobate Luke in a few episodes of Skins. The role felt like fate. It was while watching the British teen drama series several years earlier that Cole – having failed to do well in school – first realised he could be an actor. “I remember watching that show,” he recalls, “thinking, ‘That’s where I wanna be. I’ve got enough life experience and emotional baggage that I could bring to [these kinds of] roles.’ I found it quite inspiring, because it was quite revolutionary at the time.”

He’d lost his way before that, though. “I was getting into trouble,” he says of his teenage years, “and I wasn’t focusing on what I should have been focusing on. When you’re a teenager, you’re figuring out your place in the world, and for me, it was in my head that if I didn’t go to university, I was some sort of failure, and that I wouldn’t amount to very much in this life.”

He’s not afraid, though, to offer his thoughts on the effects of porn. “I don’t think it’s particularly good for society, and I don’t think it ever has been,” he says. “I think we’re seeing that with young people now, and kids, and I think problems with porn addiction are rising in young people, I don’t know the statistics, but certainly more than it was before the internet.” It certainly seems to hold a tight grip on Charlie, though the character has an innocence about him too – one that doesn’t exist in many of the other characters Cole has played. It’s exactly the kind of role he wanted to seek out when he decided to leave Peaky Blinders in 2017, at the height of its popularity. Didn’t it feel like a risk? “No, because I’m not the lead in that show,” says Cole, betraying the depths of his ambition. “The thing that people had seen me was Peaky Blinders,” he says. With Black Mirror, and now, he hopes, Pure, “people realise you’re not just a one-trick pony”.

Clearly, Cole has no regrets about stepping away from his most famous role. “I left at the perfect time,” he says. “I don’t just want to be known as the guy in Peaky Blinders.” There doesn’t seem much danger of that.

Peaky Blinders creator DEEPLY REGRETS for killing this character? "I could have just wounded him!"

 

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has expressed regret over killing off a main character in the gangster drama.

The BBC series, starring Cillian Murphy and Helen McCrory, follows the exploits of the Shelby family in the aftermath of the First World War.

In its most recent outing, the show introduced new characters including fascist leader Oswald Mosely (Sam Claflin) and the mobster Aberama Gold (Aidan Gillen).

Following the airing of the series five finale, which saw Aberama brutally killed by one of Mosely's cronies, Knight said he immediately wished he'd played the story out in a different way.

"I should have kept him alive," Knight admitted in a live viewing of the episode organised by Esquire on Sunday (31 May). "I could have just wounded him."

He also said he wished he'd spared the life of Barney Thompson because Cosmo Jarvis, who played him, is "such a good actor".

"[He's] just brilliant and I really wish I’d kept him alive now, Knight said of Jarvis.

Knight also said he found killing characters difficult even if they're villains.

The new series of the show was recently put on hold "indefinitely" because of the coronavirus pandemic, with new cast addition Stephen Graham revealing he was ready to film his scenes when production was shut down.

KONACNO Se Oglasili: Saudijska Arabija osuđuje Izrael zbog 'nepodnosljivog nasilja' u Gazi!

Kraljevski ministar vanjskih poslova poziva globalnu zajednicu da hitno djeluje kako bi okončala napade Izraela na Gazu.

Ministar vanjskih poslova Saudijske Arabije osudio je izraelsko "nepodnosljivo nasilje" nad palestinskim pravima i pozvao međunarodnu zajednicu da hitno djeluje kako bi okončala smrtonosne vojne operacije u pojasu Gaze.

Princ Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud dao je televizijske komentare u nedjelju na početku hitnog virtualnog sastanka 57-člane Organizacije za islamsku saradnju (OIC) nakon sedmice intenzivnih izraelskih bombaških napada na Gazu - enklavu od dva miliona ljudi - koja je i dalje pod zračnom, kopnenom i morskom blokadom koju je nametnuo Izrael.

Izrael je rekao da je započeo zračne napade na palestinsku teritoriju nakon što su borci Hamasa u Gazi raketirali na njegovu teritoriju. Akcija Hamasa uslijedila je kao odgovor na izraelske akcije protiv Palestinaca u okupiranom istočnom Jeruzalemu i na napad na džamiju Al-Aksa - treće najsvetije mjesto u Islamu - od strane izraelskih snaga.

Ministar je osudio ono što je nazvao kršenjem svetosti islamskih svetinja i "nasilnim" iseljavanjem Palestinaca iz njihovih domova u šeiku Jarrah u istočnom Jeruzalemu. Izrael je okupirao Istočni Jeruzalem 1967. godine, a anektirao ga je 1980. godine i od tada gradi naselja - koja se prema međunarodnom pravu smatraju ilegalnim - za Jevreje.

Palestinci su optužili Izrael za etničko čišćenje kako bi se postigle demografske promjene.

Al Saud pozvao je međunarodnu zajednicu da izvrši svoju odgovornost prema okončanju ove "opasne eskalacije", da hitno zaustavi vojne operacije i da oživi mirovne pregovore zasnovane na rješenju dviju država.

‘Pravo na suočavanje s agresijom’

Iranski zapovjednik Revolucionarne garde Quds Force naglasio je podršku Teherana Palestincima suočenim s izraelskim "zločinima" u Jeruzalemu i Gazi, izvijestili su državni mediji.

Brigadni general Ismail Qaani razgovarao je sa šefom Hamasovog političkog ureda Ismailom Haniyehom i generalnim sekretarom oružane grupe Islamski džihad Ziyad al-Nakhalah, rekla je državna nova agencija IRNA.

Qaani je rekao Haniyeh Iran da "stoji uz naciju Palestine" i osudio Izrael zbog djelovanja "protiv svih međunarodnih zakona i konvencija", izvijestilo je.

U odvojenom pozivu, Qaani je al-Nakhalahu rekao da Teheran podržava "pravo Palestinaca da se suprotstave agresiji i zločinima cionističkog neprijatelja".

Također je "pohvalio razvoj palestinskog otpora i njegove sposobnosti u odbrani naroda Palestine".

Izraelski napadi pred zoru u centru grada Gaze u nedjelju su doveli do broja poginulih u Gazi na 181, uključujući 52 djece, rekli su zdravstveni službenici. Izrael je prijavio 10 mrtvih, uključujući dvoje djece.

Hamas je započeo raketni napad u ponedjeljak nakon sedmica napetosti zbog sudskog postupka radi iseljavanja nekoliko palestinskih porodica u istočnom Jeruzalemu, kao i odmazde za izraelsko nasilje nad palestinskim vjernicima tokom svetog mjeseca Ramazana.

Izvor: Al Jazeera/News Agencies

Peaky Blinders News: Alexander Siddig says it is "not fun" on set(anymore)

Actor said the cast have a "Pack Mentality"..

Peaky Blinders actor Alexander Siddig has detailed his experience of filming the show, revealing it is “not fun”.

The star, who played painter Ruben Oliver in season three in 2016, told NME: “It is not fun. It’s full on. There are people kicking off left, right and centre. The Peaky Blinders lot are a group of method actors.”

He added: “You walk into a room and there’s a bunch of them sitting around a table all singing Peaky Blinders songs and you’re like, ‘Excuse me, wrong door’. They have a pack mentality and they hang out together, they’re fierce.”

Siddig said he was “very much on the outside” adding: “They’re lovely, lovely people obviously, but they’re in their characters.”

The actor played the love interest of Polly (Helen McCrory) in the third series of the drama, which also stars Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy and Sophie Rundle.

Siddig has also appeared in Game of Thrones as Prince Doran Martell and the shows Deep State and Primeval.  He is currently promoting the action film Skylines, a sequel to Beyond Skyline and the final entry in the Skyline trilogy, which will be released on December 18.

Earlier this year, Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole evealed that one of the reasons he left his role as John Shelby in the show was because the Birmingham gang drama focussed so heavily on Cillian Murphy’s character. 

“With Peaky Blinders, I never really got out of the gates in that role”, he said. "It’s Cillian’s show really.”

Joe Cole actually LEFT Peaky Blinders because ‘it’s Cillian Murphy’s show’ ?!

Joe Cole reveals that one of the reasons he left his role as John Shelby on Peaky Blinders was because the Birmingham gang drama focussed so heavily on Cillian Murphy’s character.

"With Peaky Blinders, I never really got out of the gates in that role”, he told The Metro. ”It’s Cillian’s show really.”

Cole has the lead role of Sean Wallace in upcoming drama Gangs Of London due to appear on NOW TV and Sky Atlantic from April 23.

Speaking of why he was drawn to the part, the actor said: “This show is more ensemble, it follows characters on a deep level.”

“So for me it’s really an opportunity to show what I can do and for the rest of the cast, what they can do,” he continued.

“I’ve spent the last few years turning down gang-related shows because when a show does well you get offered quite a lot of them. I actually chose to leave Peaky Blinders because I wanted to explore new avenues and new characters and new stories.”

Cole went on to discuss his love of gang dramas: “I grew up on The Wire. The Wire was my favourite shows, Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos are other ones.

“The problem for me is they’re the seminal pieces of television, right? They’re also American, right? Peaky Blinders is doing it in the UK now and I think this is, I think this is the one that’s going to move the conversation forward. “I just feel very lucky to be a part of it.”

Directed by Gareth Evans (The Raid), Gangs of London follows Sean who sets about on a ruthless and reckless pursuit of the men who killed his father Finn Wallace, the kingpin of London’s drug scene.