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‘Her name was Elizabeth Gray. She was my Aunt Polly. My Aunt Polly.’

‘Vengeance is for the Lord...’

‘Not in Small Heath, it ain’t. Rest in peace, Pol.’

‘...“...I remember going in for my first wardrobe fitting etc. The 2nd AD Arizona took me to set to say Hi to everyone. She was like, "wait, you know more people than I do", haha. There's quite a large Irish community on Peaky, and I knew all of them. I'd also worked with Cillian 17 years previously, and (as we'd say back home) he gave me a great faílte (welcome), so it felt quite homely and very welcoming.”

...“...one thing that stood out when filming was Sam Claflin's transformation from Sam to Oswald. In a second, he went from affable, funny, sweet, singing, telling great stories to the awful bone-chilling man that is Mosley...”

You've worked with Cillian Murphy prior to Peaky Blinders in Breakfast on Pluto; what was it like reuniting with him on the show, and did you share any nostalgia about your previous experiences working together?

Hello! I have no idea if it is related to anything I've said, so sorry for the inaccuracy of my answer if it was a response to some post I've made!

To be completely honest, I'm really not sure where the end of the show will lead us. I agree that Tommy's visceral mission to kill the message of fascism will sadly obviously fail, because we all know what happens next and it'd be a mission that would have needed to have influence in many other countries in Europe, which Tommy doesn't necessarily have. The mission he has set for himself is unattainable and I think he partly knows it deep inside, but he is unable to let it play out in front of himself and viscerally needs to do something about it to keep being able to look at himself in a mirror. For his family. For his children. As his discussion with Churchill in S5 told, it's the planted seeds for a looming war that he sees in Mosley's message.

I don't know to which extent they'll respect the chronology concerning Mosley but without bringing him down, there was a confrontation in 1936 that I guess tarnished his public image: The Battle of Cable Street. I don't think they'll do another time jump (except maybe at the very end) or maybe they'll just squeeze a few years together, because they're already talking about Mosley's wedding with Diana Mitford and it happens in 1936 too. This confrontation was between black shirts, and antifascists (communists, Jewish activists and Irish nationalist leftists). With the re-introduction of Alfie in business and the IRA hovering around with Laura McKee, it's a possibility I guess.

I don't think Tommy will be completely alone by the end. Maybe I'm wrong and/or deluded, but I see no reasons (at the moment) for Lizzie, the children, Ada, Arthur, Finn all taking their distances with him. I think the end will be bittersweet but for some reason, I want to think it's because he'll fail and not because he'll lose all his family.

With the rise of globalisation, Tommy's main problem is the man he can't defeat doesn't exist. They're multiple. They're organisations, political parties, governments with complex, secret, intersecting and conflicting interests. It surpasses the incarnation of the enemy in one man or very small groups of people like it was until S4. He killed Billy Kimber and everything stopped, he won. He ruined Sabini's business, ordered the killing of Father Hughes and fucked over the Russians, he killed Changretta, and all of it stopped. That's something I think Tatiana got right in S3: "If you don't like something, you say stop, and it stops". And there is no such stop to the beast Mosley fattens with his hate speeches.