Kate Phillips reveals whether she will be in the Peaky Blinders movie
Kate Phillips will not be a part of the ‘Peaky Blinders’ movie.
The 35-year-old actress played Linda Shelby in the last three series of the hit BBC period crime drama – which starred Cillian Murphy as the leader of a gang in Birmingham – but she will not be returning to the role when the big screen adaptation ‘The Immortal Man’ is released by Netflix towards the end of this year.
She told RadioTimes: “I’m not. There were discussions and then it didn’t pan out.
“It was such an amazing show to be part of and [creator] Steven Knight still continues to have ideas for the life and the future of ‘Peaky Blinders’, and that’s always lovely to kind of engage with his hopes and dreams for the show.
“But the life of an actor is, you’re sort of always at the behest of other people’s visions, and sometimes it’s very much a wait and see kind of game.”
Towards the end pf last year, Netflix’s official account on X, formerly Twitter, shared professional photos of Murphy on set both in character and with Knight.
Alongside the post, they wrote: “By order of the Peaky Blinders… Tommy Shelby is back.
“Cillian Murphy and Steven Knight are reunited on set as production officially starts on the upcoming Netflix film.”
Tom Harper is directing the upcoming spin-off, which followed Birmingham gang leader Tommy.
‘Saltburn’ star Barry Keoghan has signed up to appear in the movie in an unknown role, while ‘Dune’ actress Rebecca Ferguson is also part of the cast.
In the wake of the movie announcement, Murphy told Deadline: “It seems like Tommy Shelby wasn’t finished with me… It is very gratifying to be recollaborating with Steven Knight and Tom Harper on the film version of ‘Peaky Blinders’. This is one for the fans.”
Director Harper added: “When I first directed ‘Peaky Blinders’ over 10 years ago, we didn’t know what the series would become, but we did know that there was something in the alchemy of the cast and the writing that felt explosive.
“‘Peaky’ has always been a story about family – and so it’s incredibly exciting to be reuniting with Steve and Cillian to bring the movie to audiences across the world on Netflix.”
