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Peaky Blinders’ Cillian Murphy Reveals His Best Acting Advice for Son Aran Murphy
These words of wisdom are signed by order of the Peaky Blinders.
In fact, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man star Cillian Murphy has sworn by them since his early days as an actor, revealing they’re among the best bits of advice he’d pass along to his son Aran Murphy, 18, as he embarks on his own career.
“I did a play when I was very young, and I think I was rushing out to get to the pub, and I just dropped my costume on the ground,” Cillian, 49, explained to E! News in an exclusive joint interview with costar Tim Roth, “and this older actor said, ‘Always, always hang up your costume.’”
“And what he meant by that was not just hang up, but like you're just the fella prancing around on stage there,” the Oppenheimer star continued. “There's a whole machine here, like technicians and stage management and front of house, and you're just the act. You're just one cog in this whole wheel. I've never forgotten that.”
Though Aran—the youngest of Cillian’s two kids with Yvonne McGuinness—is just beginning his path onscreen, Tim is more than experienced at seeing the next generation follow in his footsteps. And that’s why the Reservoir Dogs alum—whose eldest son Jack Roth is also an actor—didn’t hold back in sharing the optimistic outlook that has guided him.
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“No means there's a yes coming,” he emphasized. “So, if someone says no, it means that somewhere out there is something that's coming towards you. Just keep going. Don't worry about it, it’ll find you and knock you over. But when they say no, it means you're available for the one that's coming.”
For Tim, he just so happened to be available for when Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight came knocking for his new movie, four years after the beloved TV series came to an end.
And the 64-year-old was certainly up for the task in playing the villainous Beckett, a Nazi sympathizer who arrives in Birmingham with a task for the titular gang and winds up at war with Cillian’s iconic now-retired crime boss Tommy Shelby.
Despite being a newcomer to the story—Sophie Rundle, Stephen Graham, Ned Dennehy and Packy Lee are among the returning faces—Tim found it was helpful to not immerse himself into the Peaky Blinders world. After all, Beckett wasn’t necessarily keeping the closest of tabs on the Shelbys up in Small Heath.
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“I decided not to watch it and just come to it completely fresh and wide eyed, just because,” as he noted, “my character wouldn't know those people anyway.”
Although, he admitted he was familiar enough to make one crucial request to Steven: swap his character's more aristocratic background to one more reminiscent of a working-class schoolteacher. As Tim quipped, "I think he would have had his neck twisted and chucked out if he was upper class."
One aspect of the show the Lie to Me star was a acutely aware of going in was the great reputation it had among the stars—including Sam Neill, Tom Hardy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Adrien Brody and more—who passed through over the years.
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“It does have a record of actors having a really good time coming through this show and some really, really good people involved,” Tim emphasized. “So it was, you rock up and you're in good company—Better be!”
Joining Tim as the latest crop of new additions were Rebecca Ferguson and Barry Keoghan, the latter of whom was acutely aware of the show’s inner workings.
“I've watched the show, and I was a massive fan of it,” he told E! in his joint interview with Rebecca, “and I was trying to be a part of it as well. I had all of that coming in.”
But he was careful about revisiting the original arc—which aired on BBC and Netflix between 2013 and 2022—before assuming the role as Tommy’s estranged heir apparent Duke Shelby in the 1940-set movie.
“I sort of wanted to stay naive to a little in a sense,” he explained. “I don't really want to go back to it. I want to bring my own sort of take on it—bold and right.”
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And ultimately, Barry’s yearslong hope to don the flat cap paid off—and he may have manifested it. After all, the Saltburn star doesn’t just play Tommy’s eldest son, he happened to be firing off a Father’s Day text to the 28 Days Later alum the same day Cillian asked if he wanted to join the cast.
“I've always wanted to work with Cillian again, and we've always stayed in contact,” Barry recalled. ”And I think it happened to be on that day. But he asked me, which was a coincidence.”
However, Rebecca, who plays Duke’s aunt Kaulo, saw serendipitous exchange between the Dunkirk costars a bit differently, telling him, “It wasn't really he knew he wanted you. You happened to text literally within a day that he was going to offer you the role.”
Still, one exchange later and the next generation of Peaky Blinders came to life on the big screen. Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man is in select theaters now and on Netflix March 20. For more new movies releasing soon, keep reading…
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