Peaky Blinder's Cillian Murphy Is Not A Fan Of Tommy Shelby's Haircut

Barbers across the land were inundated with requests for the ‘Tommy Shelby’ – otherwise known as an undercut and textured crop – when Peaky Blinders hit our screens back in 2013.

The cast reportedly took some convincing to go under the clippers – and despite the haircut’s popularity and perseverance, Cillian Murphy still isn’t a fan six years later.

“People ask for a Peaky cut. It’s crazy that people like it – it hasn’t grown on me,” the 43-year-old told Woman and Home.

On the basis that Cillian probably hasn’t got a mobile hairdressing side hustle, we can only assume he sees the cut when he’s out and about – and in fairness, he has reason to resent it.

Last year the actor revealed to New York Post that the close shave gets him hassle on the street. “It’s when you get the haircut that people start shouting at ya,” he said. “When I don’t have the haircut I can get the bus quite unmolested.”

It’s not the only sacrifice he makes to get into the character of Tommy Shelby. Last week he revealed to the Radio Times that he has to “cancel reality for a little while” during filming.

He said "Part of acting in film and television is that you have to go from sitting around in a trailer twiddling your thumbs, doing the crossword or whatever, to bang! Being in it. So if you’re coming from a standstill, it doesn’t work.

'I’m not walking around talking like Tommy all the time, but you have to be there or thereabouts. So she’s right, I’m not all there when I’m filming. And in terms of life when we’re filming: I don’t socialise, I just go home, learn the lines, go to bed."

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