Peaky Blinders: Why does Tommy Shelby never eat? Killian Murphy has the answer

The 6th season of Peaky Blinders, available on Netflix from June 10, marked the end of the Shelby family’s exciting and tragic story. And in season six, fans noticed that clan leader Tommy Shelby (Killian Murphy) was too busy to do a vital activity: eating.

Indeed, we never see Tommy in the process of being in the Shelby series. We had to wait six seasons to have an explanation for Killian Murphy during the interview BBC Radio 1. He reveals that he never realized that his character was not eating on screen.

It hit him after the first two seasons, and he and showman Stephen Knight decided to make it the norm, almost a “running anxiety”:

“I remember we finished the first two seasons and then I realized that Tommy had never eaten, that Tommy had never seen him eat. We see him at the table, but he never ate a single piece of food. So we did. So during the 36-hour series, Tommy Shelby never did anything. Eats, except I think once, when he eats mint stalks with his son.

So it all develops when you have the luxury of playing a character for so long, these trifles come up and I was discussing it with Stephen. I told him, take this or that and then we will take it and we will go. “

Fans were watching back in 2017 when they saw that the Peaky Blinders leader had never eaten. And his translator, Killian Murphy, confirmed this feature of his character, which was not intended from the beginning, but so it ended. At the same time, Tommy Shelby is so busy that he has neither time to eat nor sleep. On the other hand, he has a lot of time to drink whiskey, an activity we see very often in the series.