Peaky Blinders' Season 6 Will Make The Original Tommy Casting Even Worse
Peaky Blinders season 6 is the final season of the epic period crime show, and the evolution of Tommy's character going into season 6 highlights how close the showrunners came to a big casting mistake. Since its first season back in 2013, Peaky Blinders has slowly built up a worldwide audience and become a cultural phenomenon. The success of the show gave Cillian Murphy his signature role, but it very nearly went to another actor.
Over the previous seasons of Peaky Blinders, Tommy Shelby has had quite a journey. Returning from World War One he’s plotted and toiled to turn his neighborhood gang into a major player in post-war England, constantly fighting off rival mobsters, police, politicians, and his own demons in the process. Peaky Blinders season 6 will test Tommy even more as the show comes to an end. The final scene of season 5 has him tormented over the failure of his latest scheme and haunted by an apparition of his deceased wife Grace, leaving him standing in a field screaming with a gun to his head. The price of success, and holding onto it has changed Tommy over the years and left him at his most vulnerable, and Peaky Blinders season 6 will change Tommy’s character further.
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Having been betrayed at the end of Peaky Blinders season 5, there are enemies at every turn, including within the family. Without Aunt Polly around to offer guidance (given the sad passing of actress Helen McCrory), he’s more alone than ever in Peaky Blinders season 6. Cillian Murphy does a tremendous job of bringing Tommy to life, but he wasn’t series creator Steven Knight’s first choice. Jason Statham was actually nearly cast as Tommy Shelby, having worked with
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