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To coincide with Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man arriving in cinemas, the great grandson of an original gang member has harsh words for hardcore fans.
It’s a glorious time to be a Peaky Blinders aficionado, as sequel movie The Immortal Man is currently playing in cinemas, before heading to Netflix.
Two new seasons of the show are also in the works, set in the 1950s – during Birmingham’s post-war reconstruction era – and focusing on a fresh crop of Shelbys.
Indeed, the only bad bit of news concerns Cillian Murphy hanging up his razor-sharp cap, claiming he’s done playing Thomas Shelby. While the relative of an original gang member believes fans should stop play-acting as Peaky Blinders in real-life.
Peaky Blinder’s great-grandson issues stark warning to fans
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Professor Carl Chin is a social historian whose great-grandfather Edward Derrick was a member of one of the original Peaky Blinder gangs. And he isn’t impressed with folk dressing up as the gangsters, and treating them as role models.
“Because of the cultural approach so many people have taken,” Chinn tells LadBible. “They’re ignoring the violence, the racism, the bullying, the sexual assaults of the real Peaky Blinders which I’ve studied in detail.
“[Fans] turn it into something that is just a fashion and ‘we’re dressing like the real Peaky Blinders, we’ve got the hat, we’ve got the suits.’
“The real Peaky Blinders were poor men overwhelmingly were street traders trying to make a few bob or unskilled labourers in irregular work they couldn’t afford fine clothes.”
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He adds: “It is worrying because you can see in a lot of young men, there is this attraction towards glamorized gangsterism, which is not a reality.”
While regarding his own great-grandfather, he learned while growing up that Derrick was a violent, abusive, wife-beating thug, giving him a different perspective on that lifestyle.
Chinn: “I’m not proud to be the great grandson on a real Peaky Blinder but I’ll tell you what I am proud of is I’m proud to be the son, the grandson, and the great-grandson of backstreet Birmingham women and they are the true heroes of the backstreets, not the Peaky Blinders, not the organised crime gangs of the 1920s.”
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man is in cinemas now before hitting Netflix on March 20. For more on the show, find out why a Peaky Blinders star blamed his “intense” role for drug charges and how Peaky Blinders decried use of footage in political campaign. You can also check out new TV shows hitting streaming this month.
