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ommy Shelby is back on the bottle. Entering a wood-panelled office, and to his disgust finding an empty decanter, a suited-and-booted Cillian Murphy heads straight for a desk drawer, ferrets out some liquor and chugs it down. Is the Peaky Blinder getting blind drunk? Don’t you believe it. “It’s always been a thing with Tommy, this element of self-medication,” notes Murphy between takes. “But he’s of such incredible, intellectual depth and so relentless that he manages to function in spite all of that, which is crazy to think.”

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