Cillian Murphy reveals how he perfected his Peaky Blinders accent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In a new interview with Radio Times, Murphy said he doesn’t “share one thing” – including his accent – with the brutal and unforgiving head of the Shelby family. “And we’re just drinking Guinness there, and they’re singing Birmingham City songs and telling all sorts of stories, and I was recording on my iPhone, and then I took that home, and used it to try and track the accents, you know.” Murphy said he would then call Knight and leave him voicemails in the accent to “see how close I was to it”. So that takes a while, which I hate.” During his interview, Murphy touched upon the grief that the entire production experienced following the death of Helen McCrory, who played Shelby family matriarch Polly Gray on Peaky Blinders. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free Sharing that their scenes together were his “favourites”, he added: “We got into the swing of it where we didn’t seem to need to rehearse or anything; we would just put the two characters up, and they would pop.” The highly anticipated sixth and final season of the Peaky Blinders is scheduled for release on 27 February.