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Is Tommy Shelby's story the whole truth? Cillian Murphy doesn't think so. The acclaimed actor shares his perspective on Tommy's crippling guilt, the ghosts of his past, and why we only ever see one side of the story in the hit series 'Peaky Blinders'.
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00:00He's just like a big walking guilt machine.
00:07So, yeah, but I thought it was very, very tough to do that to that character from Steve's point of
00:14view,
00:15because he's one of the most beloved characters and a brilliant actor and a really, really tough thing to do.
00:19But in storytelling terms, it was an excellent device.
00:22I think it's very, very deep, right?
00:26Because we don't really know exactly what went on, because you only have one side of the story,
00:33which is Tommy's side of the story, and you don't have Arthur's side of the story.
00:37And that's one person's side of the story is never good enough to get the full story.
00:42And I think what Tommy is dealing with is that new guilt, which must be one of the worst forms
00:53of guilt,
00:53but then all of the guilt from his whole life and everything he's lived through,
01:00because he's stopped in this house, and it all comes flooding, all these ghosts, all these demons,
01:04you know, abandoning his son, everything.
01:06So he's just...
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