According to an interview with Deadline, Stephen Graham (Boiling Point, Bodies) has revealed he will star in the Netflix Movie Peaky Blinders.
At the London Film Festival red carpet, Graham said that he will work on the movie prior to his role in Bruce Springsteen’s bipoc Deliver Me from Nowhere as his father.
He played Hayden Stagg in the final sixth season of the show. However, Graham never revealed which specific character he was going to play in the film. Netflix was asked to comment on the film via Deadline. He is added to the cast that features actors such as Barry Keoghan (Eternals, The Banshees of Inisherin), Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer, A Quiet Place Part 2), Rebecca Ferguson (Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation, The Greatest Showman) and Tim Roth (Planet of the Apes, Pulp Fiction).
More cast members were revealed, which can be read here.
He informed Deadline that he is “looking forward to seeing the lads again” on the BBC series.
The sequel to Peaky Blinders was written by Steve Knight (Dirty Pretty Thing, All the Light We Cannot See). Along with Knight, the producers of the movie include Guy Heeley (We Live in Time, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain), Patrick Holland (Then Barbara Met Alan, Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love) and Murphy. The executive producers are Andrew Warren (Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, Johnny English Strikes Again), Caryn Mandabach (The Cosby Show: A Look Back, The Mayor of Oyster Bay), David Kosse (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Theory of Everything), Jamie Glazebrook (Man Stroke Woman, The Immortal Man) and Tom Harper (The Woman in Black: Ángel of Death, The Scouting Book for Boys). The movie will be associated with BBC Film. During the RTS London Convention, Knight discussed the “mind blowing” cast and how the film is “set in the Second World War and it’s really good.”
Steven McQueen’s (Red, White and Blue, Lovers Rock) Blitz that happened Wednesday night on the red carpet, Graham informed Deadline he anticipates a second season of Boiling Point on BBC. A Thousand Blows, his Disney+ show that was also written by Knight and will be releasing soon, is set to premiere at LFF.