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From ticket tout at Chelsea FC to Cillian Murphy's Peaky Blinders co-star... but does this sad image of drug-abusing Paul Anderson prove his luck's run out?


Growing up in one of the less salubrious parts of South London in the early Eighties, a young man called Paul Anderson used to dream of becoming a rock star. But an actor he became.

The transformation, together with the drugs conviction, has led to speculation that Anderson will not be invited to reprise his role as Arthur in the eagerly anticipated – and recently confirmed – climactic film version of Peaky Blinders, rumoured to begin shooting in early summer. In a scene straight from a movie, Love heard Anderson’s gruff South London accent and decided that, despite his lack of experience, he would be perfect for the part of football hooligan Bex in the 2009 film The Firm. Anderson also appeared in Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows alongside Robert Downey Jr – and became so determined to perfect his new craft that he enrolled at drama school, describing it as the ‘university experience I never had’.

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