Disheveled ‘Peaky Blinders’ star Paul Anderson looks unrecognizable in new photos
22.02.2024 - 18:15
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pleaded guilty to all four charges and was fined £1,345. Following that, he was spotted looking disheveled as he wandered around London. “Peaky Blinders” ran for six seasons from 2013-2022.
Set in Birmingham, England, post World War I, it followed the Shelby crime family: Tommy (Cillian Murphy), his brothers Arthur (Anderson) and John (Joe Cole), their sister Ada (Sophie Rundle), their aunt Polly (the late Helen McCrory), and Polly’s estranged son, Michael (Finn Cole). In a BBC interview during the show’s run, Anderson said, “They’re the most interesting roles to play: violent, brutal, dark characters. There’s so much scope because you can do the obvious brutish kind of stuff, but then you can play the sort of different layers with a violent man.
There’s a reason for that sort of behaviour and mentality. Men were hard men and if they weren’t then they were left behind. It was a pleasure to play Arthur Shelby.
Much better than playing the nice guy.” A slew of stars have appeared in various seasons as antagonists and fellow criminals, including Tom Hardy, Sam Neill, “House of the Dragon” star Paddy Considine, Adrien Brody, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Sam Claflin. Creator Steven Knight even decided to bring Tom Hardy back after killing off his character, Alfie, telling The Post in 2019, “I began to think, ‘What a shame we don’t have Alfie.’ Tom [Hardy] was of a similar mind. Tom loves the character.
I try to avoid social media where possible, it’s more … you meet people who say, ‘I love Peaky Blinders’ and they’d say, ‘Is Alfie coming back?’ So I could tell there was a groundswell of concern. So lots of things came together to make me think, ‘Let’s bring Alfie back. I can, so I will.”The chaotic Arthur frequently had plot lines
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