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Cillian Murphy on reviving Tommy Shelby for the Peaky Blinders movie: “It does become like a second skin”

The Oppenheimer star speaks to GQ about his Oscar win and his new movie Small Things Like These, which is drawn from a dark chapter in Irish history

Directed by Tim Mielants, it finds Murphy returning to his home country to play Bill Furlong, a small town coal-delivery man in the 1980s who accidentally discovers that the local convent is abusing young women. What he has encountered is one of the Magdalene laundries, one of the famously horrific institutions that targeted girls who had children out of wedlock or engaged in other so-called sins. Murphy spoke to GQ about his latest turn—as well as revisiting Tommy Shelby for the upcoming Peaky Blinders movie.

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