Cillian Murphy - By Order Of The Peaky Fooking Blinders - His Only Appearance on Craig Ferguson

[Music] come on everybody [Music] [Applause] my first guest tonight my first guest tonight is a terrific actor he is in the best show on television right now the best show on television it's uh have you got netflix yeah hell yeah all right it's uh called peaky blinders yeah that's right it's about uh it's about a criminal gang in in britain at the end of the first world war right it's like i watched it i was like what don't say fruits yeah this is like a that that's how they speak in piggy blinder the hell man i thought i'd try and sneak it in yeah it didn't didn't work anyway peaky blinders seasons one and two are on netflix take a look at this that's a great show killian murphy everybody [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] congratulations i i i am not kidding i i came in uh one day and said to him but i didn't before i even knew you were on i said you've got to see the show it's amazing ah thanks man are you were you aware when you were putting it together of just how crazy this thing is ah it's pretty wild yeah no i mean this i read the first two scripts right you know that's your mistake never do that yeah well if you go off the name alone it doesn't reveal much you know i know i thought it was about dancing or something you know you can't tell right um but it was so compelling and so unusual and unique and uh yeah i saw i was yeah hooked immediately the uh the name peaky blenders is the name of the gang right they were a real gang in birmingham or is that right that's right yeah i mean the the name kind of the clue is in the title i guess but they had these they you know the peaked cat was like the uniform of the working class right written in ireland and so they but they used to um sew razor blades into the peak of the cap and that so that they could yeah yeah take your because they used to do that in glasgow and the razorbacks they would sew them into the lapel so when you grabbed somebody you'd lose your fingers yeah it's um not pleasant no it's not and that's why i moved into comedy but what's interesting to me is uh you're irish clear yeah and you play someone from birmingham who's interacting with a lot of irish people yes do you ever sit with an actor and think that's not very good that accent you're doing well the thing about this was that everybody was doing different accents right like i was in birmingham the irish characters were like you know the annabel wallace who plays irish she's like from she's raised in portugal sam neil he's a um a kiwi he's playing belgium sam neal's accent is great in this isn't it yeah it sounds a bit like ian paisley yeah is that what he did is that with the accent he was looking he was gone for a bit of that right yeah fire and brimstone it's really weird that it's such an odd show it's like it's like the wire made by kurosawa and britain at the turn of the century it's nuts it's a great description well it kind of has it's just bananas yeah and i uh what i'm fascinated by as well is that it's just it's a working-class story that's the thing you see i think in britain um for ages like this of the upper middle class and the aristocracy are so well represented in drama but never really the workings right it's all downton yeah yeah a lot of that and the thing is in america the working class are kind of mythologized you know right like in gangster shows and and uh so we hadn't really done that so it was kind of you know it was time for that to happen i think and winston churchill the uh com is a character not a sympathetic character in this not really no no he did some bad stuff as well as some great stuff right yeah i mean it was uh the thing about churchill as people forget because they used to say in britain i don't know if he's the right man but he was the right man for the job then which they also used to say about stalin you know it's like yeah it's like they you know to stop hitler you needed a kind of neutron bomb like that but it was uh it's an astonishing because my my grandfather hated winston churchill right and you never you never got that because he put machine guns uh out in george square in glasgow when they were they thought there was going to be a revolution after well before the first world war and then during and after yeah he wasn't a very popular man in ireland back then oh no no but i think um i think in like my character what my character sees in him in the show is that he did go to the trenches and he did he was that's true he was the real deal yeah so you got to hand that to him but yeah it's fascinating to have somebody like that as a main or a featured character in a show like that you know a major historical figure now the the character that you play is that was he a real guy did he really exist there was a shelby family um yeah in fact the writer steve knight is from birmingham so right and he you know all these stories were passed down to him through his parents to his i think his mother was like a runner for for an illegal bookmaking gang so he had them as a child and and these these memories and he wanted to tell this story and so this family did exist and he always used to remember him as being currently dapper despite not having much money and you know um and and very fierce and and then he just i suppose expanded that and created right and goes into his own roman acclaim yeah like what about uh the horse riding you do something is that you riding that horse that it's not is it no no it is it's it's a real horse um and um you see that yeah yeah they do it right yeah he's uh he's a real horse and uh he was um yeah we had to do bareback right i saw in the very first scene of the first episode when you ride that because my my my wife is big on horses all right and she's watching and she's going oh he's he's good he can actually do it well i go so we get to watch it then yeah it's the it's that classic actor thing of you know do you fence do you ride horses do you drive a car yes of course i do but you don't you know i can't do any of those things and you drive a car i have recently learned how to drive a car is that true yeah it's because you live in london yeah yeah i see i lived in london there's no need to have a car in london it's a waste of time it's just a way to get parking tickets yeah whereabouts in london you live general kind of uh i live in queens park do you know i used to live in heartland road really yes just next to the subway station or the london underground that is mad i used to go to the uh the discount chicken place right on the corner it's now a mr fish oh well there you are although and i'm now a vegan so yeah do you ever do that you ever do the vegans no i'm not i can't i was vegetarian for like like 12 years what happened bacon sandwich no it was it was uh it wasn't the bacon sandwich it was i i went like i went to venison venison yeah you flash bastard i know and i felt amazing afterwards well you eat bambi yeah for 12 years you didn't eat meat and then you ate baffy it tasted so good we'll be right back with kelly and murphy everybody [Applause] so [Applause] welcome back everybody i'm here with kellyanne murphy and we were talking about the peaky blinders which is the best show on television with the exception of all the great shows on cbs but you still live in london i do and do you make the show in london or do you make it in birmingham no we we don't make it in birmingham because the birmingham of that period was just doesn't exist it was bomb that existed yeah yeah i suppose planning as well right to the ground so we we shoot in manchester and liverpool right the uh the because the the accent the birmingham accent is actually very hard it's one of those ones that people if they get it slightly wrong they go into pakistani yeah or south africa or south africa is like hello i'm from birmingham how are you doing yeah it's a tricky one it's a tricky one it is and it's to sort of make it sound cool as well not cool but you know if you're a gangster it's important to have some element of yes not that we're for a moment suggesting that a life of crime is cool no no no no no no although we don't make movies about people who just live normal happy life this is it do you ever read a script and go nah this guy's too much of a bastard i can't do it uh yes yeah i mean i think and it's great fun playing like a down the line bad guy but what's much more interesting is someone that's like a comp you know a mixture of moral ambiguity well there you go yeah to be that like uh that seems to be the way telly is moving it's all about like you know the sort of the anti-hero and uh well i think television now is because most people that go that used to go and see thoughtful movies don't go and see thoughtful movies they stay home and they watch thoughtful movies on on uh television yeah um so it's it's kind of an interesting thing so movies now are like you know shoot them up rock and soccer you know or kids which is fine yeah uh you ever done one of them which one well the 28 days uh later oh yeah that was that was good fun a lot of zombie action in there a lot of zombies in that you took your complete clothes off you did you went phil kardashian yeah i did do that yes thanks now everyone will be like googling that right now you don't necessarily have to use google you can use whatever search engine is legal on cbs so do you have a pet i i have a cass yes oh really a cat yes i do it's got a cat yeah is it ginger cat you have no idea what kind of cat he is so you have a cat you live in london and you have children i do how many i have two boys well that's enough yeah it is i have two boys too do you how old 13 and three wow yeah scottish people ejaculate once every 10 years it's like you know these big orchids in the jungle once every 10 years just like that and whoever's around gets pregnant and that's i thought it was the same with the irish um it can be i think uh yeah i got lucky i guess um yeah what age are your kids they're they're nine and seven so so you go back to work yeah yeah it took two years but i did it and that's it no more so your boys go to school there they're going to be actors do you think i don't know i don't know would you like them to be actors i don't think you can really stop it can you no you can't uh is the thing i mean yeah as long as they're not gods i don't mind not what goths got as in g-o-t-h-s oh goths yeah yeah we don't do t-h's very well in ireland no no and i've been here so long that i didn't understand a word yeah what part of ireland you from cork ah that's down the bottom yeah i know where it is yeah yeah my family are from donegal oh really yeah beautiful there yeah and i think so yeah i've never been to cork except the airport haven't yeah it's it was just second county in ireland it's right down there yeah yeah it's kind of like birmingham you know the second city syndrome but uh it's beautiful theater in that very swanky theater in dublin what's it called the uh which one that there's a very famous theater in dublin the gaiety uh yeah yeah why not the abbey is the abbey the abbey the national theater yeah uh uh no i've never worked in the abbey actually you do you do a lot of theater i do a lot of theater yeah but i've never i've never worked in the abbey do you do the shakespeare i have never done shakespeare it's about time son do you think ah it's a high ddd hamlet [Laughter] i don't know i i kind of a bit of a i never trained so i might be a little like anxious about the whole shakespeare thing well i think sometimes though you look at shakespeare what i mean i'm just thinking about the show you've done yeah right if you look at that peaky blind show and season three has just been announced right that's right right so congratulations on that that's great but the the uh you know that was kind of like you guys are like um we haven't seen it yet so we don't know if we're happy about it but um i think that a naturalized approach to uh to stories which have been told more than once is a very good idea yeah and and when you look at the uh that period in history with that what's the name of the director of the guy who put it together otto bathurst um yeah he's a bit of a star that was very very good he's very talented and he directed the first three and then tom harper directed the second three and then just the same two guys over and over and over again uh no conor mccarthy did the second season second block all right i haven't seen the second season yet yeah it's good it gets it gets darker it gets kind of well darker yeah man yeah it gets kind of yeah if that's wow that's kind of like the coen brothers get a little weird later on yeah i know i know i should look forward to it i really am taking what i think is the most exciting piece of television i've seen in years very good and you are spectacular in it and anybody who knows anything about this show knows i don't do that cracking with actors but you are really good well i appreciate it that was awesome kellyanne murphy everybody we'll be right back [Applause] there's some harmonica well you drunk you can drum i'll drop well i like drumming here do you like that we both have drums to give them the thing do you like can you do this you know mike longo taught benny wallace this thing from dizzy gillespie here it is wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait 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Length: 15min 21sec (921 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 24 2017

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