Dusty Black Coat

(Or when a drunken Cillian told Bono that U2 was becoming sucky 🤣)

2005:

“I was sitting in Renards Nightclub in Dublin with the prodigiously talented actor Cillian Murphy…We may have been what Irish people refer to as "mildly overserved," when the conversation took a turn toward the honesty exit off the motorway that a great night out can be. I sensed we were going to go there.

Honesty, we agreed, is the irreducible minimum in creativity, and it never gets easier. At which point Cillian grabbed the wheel and we made a sharp left turn into vino veritas.

"I used to be such a big fan," he said. "I loved your early stuff. I loved The Joshua Tree …”

Dramatic pause.

“... but then I lost you."

And here comes his question. "Where has your lyricism gone? You used to write about real love and real life, you wrote about characters like Victor Jara or the strikers in Red Hill Mining Town."

Pause.

"Vertigo'? What is that song? Who are you talking to?"

In vino veritas. You have to admire it. This great actor cannot tell a lie, not even to the person pouring his champagne.

At which point the girl with crimson nails, or someone very similar, was asking us if we needed another drink, and both of us laughing, I said to Cillian, "You have to write what you know, write where you are."

I'm grateful to know Cillian and his partner, Yvonne, and delighted to still see them at U2 shows, but more grateful still for the exceptional performer who cannot tell a lie.”

-From Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono (2022). Edited from pages 430-433

“A few moments that jump out from Peaky Blinders… people, of course, talked about your many wonderful scenes with Annabelle Wallis playing Grace…”

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Tommy x Grace hive, you know what to do. So many scenes of there’s to pick from…

Putting aside the fact that this is a TV show because some people like to be an ass about it

It’s funny when tommy-lizzie shippers say things like this😂😂 apparently grace is a bitch who broke his heart..used him and broke his heart. Again…ummm and exactly what is Tommy doing with Lizzie throughout the series? 🤡 …the same shipping hypocrites are praying Tommy ends up with Lizzie at the end of the movie🫠

Ugh. Anti-Grace people always end up with their final retort being, "She's Dead!" As if we Grace fans think she's going to be reanimated and be his zombie bride.

We know she's dead. But we also understand that she doesn't need to be alive to be a huge presence on Tommy's life and mindset. 10 years after her death, she was still one of the first people he thought of. She was a safe place, the heart that he called "Home."

The problem is that people get confused and think the Grace hallucination of season 5 was the real Grace, or how Tommy truly remembered her.Hologram Grace 🤪 was a personification of Tommy's inner-guilt and torment. She wore the face of Grace, but the things she said were all Tommy's own personal demons being uttered. He conjured her up her in his troubled mind because she was such a solace. He missed her so much.

But Tommy's own trauma and torment couldn't help but bubble through. Hence, her harsh words, & her telling him to kill himself. (When we all know real Grace would never want Tommy to abandon Charlie...so don't tell her what Tommy Charlie...so don't tell her what Tommy did at the end of season 6) 😏

You just have to see Tommy's face when he recounted first seeing hallucination Grace, how his eyes light up & how happy & lovestruck he still was at her presence:

She might be dead, but the way she made him feel is not. That will never fade. And it will forever be the benchmark of how he goes for future relationships. So yes, she might be dead, but her influence on Tommy, deep inside is not. Animal has never said the Grace is going to come back to life and return to the show—people might want to read it that way, but all she ever implies is that Grace's impact is not through on Peaky Blinders.

Tommy's love of her, and his sadness over the loss of her, will forever live in him.

In fact, Cillian has spoken about the importance of Grace in the series, thst in fact Tommy being in love with her was as close as Tommy ever got to again being the man he was before the war; to being a better man, and that her death permanently changed Tommy's outlook.

To the BBC:

"I think the pre-war Tommy smiled and laughed a lot. He wanted to work with horses, he was very romantic.

"All of these things - you see scratches of them throughout the show and there are times when he feels he is getting towards some sort of healing when he's with Grace.

And then it's taken away again and he retreats back into that kind of shell emotionally."

And to the Radio Times:

“…during the time Tommy was married to Grace he was completely faithful. Prior to that, sex was basically a way of self-medicating, then Grace's death spun him off into something else entirely. I think that as we meet him now, he's probably shut down again emotionally, and sex is just a physical need that has to be met."

So, anonymous, Cillian has always emphasized the relevance of Grace, alive or dead, in the life of Tommy.

Natasha even said in some interviews during s6/s6 that tommy has a passionate love for her, no wonder her fans are delusional. She is the one spreading toxic interpretations in the first place.