Cillian Murphy has opened up about reprising his role as Tommy Shelby in the upcoming film Peaky blinders film, The immortal man.
In a new interview, the Irish actor described preparing for the role as a conscious process, noting that it involved both reading and physical conditioning. He
“But after a certain point there’s kind of a blurring of the lines between me and him. It doesn’t happen immediately. But it’s very satisfying,” Murphy said. The independent.
The Oscar he won for Oppenheimer nothing will change in 2024, Murphy insisted. “That was a beautiful, crazy, kind of hallucinogenic moment,” he told the magazine. “But my tastes and my values remained the same.”
In the film, set six years after the last episode, Tommy is hollowed out by grief, isolated on his estate and haunted by the loss of his family. Despite this, Murphy insisted that the story can be viewed by new viewers without having seen the original series.
“Someone who has never seen the film could approach this as a standalone film. I think that’s the beauty of it,” he added.
Murphy also emphasized the contrast between film and long stories. “Longform television is like a novel,” he noted. “A movie is a short story. You have to have a very clear beginning, middle and end. You have to pay things off.”
