black cigarettes peaky blinders Cillian Murphy says he smoked more than 3,000 rose-based herbal while filming Blinders, all to stay true to Tommy Shelby's chain-smoking persona. “People did smoke all day [in the 1920s],” Cigarette Peaky Blinders - Etsy

The one thing I was always taught at drama school was you have to love your character before anything else, he explained

Murphys dedication highlights the physical demands of playing Tommy Shelby, a character who is almost always seen smoking

Peaky Blinders: Cillian Murphy returns for series five Peaky Blinders fans have always wondered exactly how many cigarettes the Shelby family smoke in the BBC series, as the Birmingham gangsters are almost always seen with one hanging out of their mouths

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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

So in order to avoid that I rolled the cigarette on my lips and then it became a Tommy thing