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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man<\/a> shockingly killed off everyone’s favourite, or maybe second favourite, Shelby brother, and Cillian Murphy has revealed what he thinks of Arthur’s sad ending.<\/p>\n

In the new film, which arrived on Netflix<\/a> in March, we devastatingly find out that Arthur Shelby<\/a> passed away after the end of season six, and it’s later revealed that he was shockingly killed by his own brother Tommy.<\/p>\n

The show’s creator Steven Knight said it was always the plan for Paul Anderson’s character to die<\/a>, and Murphy thinks it was a very fitting ending for his beloved Peaky Blinders brother, too.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, he said every character had to die eventually, because that’s the cost of being in a gangster family. And Arthur is no different.<\/p>\n

Speaking to LadBible<\/a>, he said: “Steve [the creator] has always handled that part of the storytelling very\u2026 deathly I think. There has always been that kind of great loss throughout the series and I guess, inevitably, if you live by the sword, you can die by the sword.<\/p>\n

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Credit: BBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“That\u2019s the sort of terrible cost that living in a gangster family exacts. You never know who\u2019s going to make it. But I feel like it\u2019s been an evolution, every series has been an evolution – and I really feel like the film kind of tops it all off.”<\/p>\n

The actor explained that all the characters suffer in Peaky Blinders, and that’s why everyone connects to the “humanity” of the story so much.<\/p>\n

“They all suffer. If someone gets injured in Peaky, they stay injured. They go to the hospital and come out months later, you know? There are consequences to the violence,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“The main theme of the whole show was trauma. These men came back from World War One and were absolutely destroyed by what they had experienced and seen.”<\/p>\n

Anderson has spoken out about not being included in the film<\/a>, and it sounds like he would have loved to be in it. But, he left the creator to it and sadly had no choice in being written out.<\/p>\n

For all the latest Netflix news and drops,\u00a0like The Holy Church of Netflix on Facebook.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Featured image credit: BBC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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