In London, Arthur, whose cocaine habit is worrying his younger brother, leads the Blinders in tearing up the Eden Club belonging to Sabini, which they plan to take over, quite hostilely.
He suffers from ptsd and mental instability. During childhood, he was probably ignored by his father and received severe neglect. He grew up with gangsters and cut throats, probably always feared in school. In his teens, his aunt loses her children due to drug abuse which he probably consumed highly himself.
Tommy and others are seen smoking Opium throughout the series as a coping mechanism. over 5000 cigarettes were smoked on the show. Characters drink frequently on-screen, become drunk, and act violent and clumsy. One character has an opium habit, and a 10-year-old child smokes a cigarette on-screen.
Cillian Murphy, who plays Tommy, was asked about this very topic during an interview with BBC Radio One. The actor explained: "That comes from the fact that the cigarettes, we cut the filter off or do we leave the filter on I cannot recall, but anyway if you don't rub them across your lips initially, they will stick.
Arthur Shelby is Tommy Shelby's right-hand man and a tough member of the Peaky Blinders. The eldest of the Shelby siblings, he is also Deputy Vice President of Shelby Company Limited.
He pursues and seduces her until things begin to develop between them. Finally, Polly decides to come to him at night and sleeps with him. Polly trusts him in the end and starts sharing a secret about the murder of Chief Inspector Chester Campbell.
Thomas Shelby is the leader of the Peaky Blinders. As a war veteran and with a great reputation for defeating rival gangs in the name of his family, he can easily be awarded the highest kill count in the show.
The whiskey that is drunk in Peaky Blinders is the Gallglennie Whiskey. However, this whiskey does not really exist but it was invented by the makers of the series. By the way, the actors do not drink real whiskey during the filming. Instead of whiskey they use tea.
“There were these rose cigarettes that are herbal – Steve (Knight) would joke they're one of your five a day.” Talking about he came to know about ending up smoking 3000 cigarettes, Cillian said, “I asked the prop guys to count how many I smoked just out of interest, and they think it's something like 3,000.”
Cillian Murphy smoked thousands of cigarettes every season.
Smoking is a big part of most scenes, and all of the cigarettes were real. "I asked the prop guys to count how many we use during a series and it's 3,000," Murphy told BirminghamLive.
From the beginning, Tommy has struggled with what we now understand as post-traumatic stress disorder, stemming from his time in World War I. In Season 6, he suffers from seizures, with his body reflecting the inner turmoil wrought from fighting at home and abroad.
Now in season five, fans have been watching him drink a small dose of opium at intervals to carry on with business as usual. But, this has resulted in Tommy having hallucinations of seeing his dead wife Grace Shelby (Annabelle Wallis) who was killed back in season three.
If you've ever noticed that Shelby never eats on the show, that's because it was an accidental choice that later turned into an intentional decision. Once fans noticed this quirk, Murphy and Knight decided to turn it into a “Tommy thing,” which added to the character's obsessive industriousness.
Polly is a disfigured patient who was hospitalized for schizophrenia and depression. Polly has severe scarring on her body, the result of setting herself on fire.
Thomas Shelby aka the Textured French Crop
Thomas Shelby's textured French crop is short on the back and sides, with long hair on top. For his slightly tousled style, you'll want to keep this fairly long so that it can be brought to the front and swept to one side.
"I'm A Good Man. But My Hands... These Hands Belong To The Devil."
TOMMY SHELBY. As any true fan knows, Tommy Shelby prefers Irish whiskey over all. And if you ordered a pour of Irish at the Garrison when the Shelbys ruled Birmingham, you'd be drinking a Bushmills.
In the TV series Peaky Blinders, the characters are often seen smoking herbal cigarettes, which are typically used as a substitute for tobacco cigarettes. While the exact brand of herbal cigarettes used in the show is not specified, it is believed that the brand used is Honeyrose.
Tommy Shelby has four tattoos that have appeared on screen. The most famous is the sunray design on his left breast. This was based on a real tattoo that had Jesus in the middle; but Tommy's not the religious type, so only the sunrays were used.
We've never seen Tommy eat — like he's sat down at tables but has never consumed a morsel. So then we kind of made it a running gag. So throughout the thirty-six hours of television, Tommy Shelby never consumes anything.
Although Tommy's choice to drink water is solely based on him giving up alcohol, the other men see it as a betrayal of their values and a way of him laughing in their faces.
Tommy proved how serious he was by having furious sex with Diana between purple satin sheets.
1) Oswald Mosley
The world of Peaky Blinders is full of vicious murderers and violent gangs, but the leader of the Fascist regime, Oswald Mosley (Sam Claflin), poses a multifaceted threat that is relatively unmatched by many of Thomas Shelby's other enemies.