Peaky Blinders’ Thomas Shelby in America Politician’s Homophobic Video? The team of the series condemns the use of images and messages

Thomas Shelby is one of the most popular characters on the small screen, and the Peaky Blinders fan community is still alive and well, even though the series was shut down after six seasons. If they’re still around, it’s because a movie is in the works, and possibly other spin-off series.

The thug-turned-politician played by Cillian Murphy is so embedded in popular culture that he has recently been used in political campaigns on the big and small screen alongside other well-known violent characters such as Patrick Bates (Christian Bale) in American Psycho or Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) in The Wolf of Wall Street.

Except this video is a montage of the campaign team of Florida governor and Republican primary candidate Ron DeSantis.

This video decries the advances in LGBTQIA+ rights that have been made during the presidency of Donald Trump, who is now running against Ron DeSantis.

This transphobic and homophobic montage was absolutely not well received by the Peaky Blinders team, including its creator Steven Knight, who shared a message to confirm their strong disagreement with the unauthorized use of the character by Peaky Blinders. on the series’ official Twitter account.

On behalf of Peaky Blinders partners Steven Knight, Cillian Murphy, Caryn Mandabach, Productions, Tiger Aspect Productions and Banijay Rights, we confirm that the Tommy Shelby character image used in the Ron DeSantis campaign video was obtained without permission or authority. Authorization.

We do not endorse or support the message of this video and we strongly disapprove of the use of this content in this manner.”

The video, which has since been deleted, was also heavily criticized by former Trump administration official Rick Grenell, who described the video as “Definitely homophobic” but by The Log Cabin Republicans, an organization of LGBTQIA+ Republicans who believed that Ron DeSantis had “Adventures in homophobic territory”.

All six seasons of Peaky Blinders are available on Netflix.