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Cillian Murphy revealed the practical reason why his character rubs his cigarette across his lips before smoking it (BBC 1)[/caption]
"That comes from the fact that the cigarettes, we cut the filter off, or do we leave them on? I can't remember... but if you don't rub them across your lips initially, it will stick. That just became this sort of idiosyncrasy, but it was out of necessity, because otherwise the cigarettes would stick to my lip. And then I just kept doing it and it became a Tommy thing.
"These things develop over the course of the show, you know?"
The actor then explained how the cast and crew got through the first two series of Peaky Blinders before realising that we'd never seen Tommy eat before.
"So then we made it a kind of running gag," Murphy said, "Throughout the 36 hours of television, Thomas Shelby never consumes anything. Except I think, once he consumes a sprig of mint when he's with his son.
"So these things develop, when you have the luxury of being with a character for so long, these little things arise."
While the chain smoking is key to his character, Thomas Shelby wouldn't be Thomas Shelby without his iconic haircuts - and Murphy also revealed that in series five, when his haircut was the most intense ("a zero blade"), his fresh trim needed a lot of TLC to stay fresh.
"That required daily attention," he revealed.
"Growing it out is traumatic, you know, because it doesn't look good," he added.
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