black cigarettes peaky blinders Fun fact 🎬 Cillian Murphy smoked an estimated 18,000 while playing Tommy Shelby in Blinders, but he doesn't smoke in real life. To handle the constant on screen smoking, the THOMAS SHELBY SMOKING (PART 4)

They would not only fight other gangs but they hated police too and also preyed upon the hard-working, respectable poor among whom they lived. The terror that the Peaky Blinders gangs struck into the local community was reflected in Steven Knights TV adaptation for the BBC

And in the past, Cillian Murphy has explained that there is actually a good reason for it

Laughing at the memory, Helen admitted the situation behind the scenes was worse than they thought

While it wasnt in enough time to save the beloved John Shelby (Finn Cole) from dying from a shower of bullets, Tommy and Arthur Shelby (Paul Anderson) managed to exact their revenge on head of the family Luca (Adrien Brody), and stop anyone else from getting killed in the process