The final season of Peaky Blinders premiered on Netflix on June 10, 2022. For six seasons, audiences followed an Irish gang known as the Peaky Blinders, led by Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy), as they made their way through the Birmingham underworld.
In the first two seasons, they met Inspector Chester Campbell, played by Sam Neill, as the main enemy of the series. Winston Churchill sent Campbell to deal with a stolen shipment of arms from the Birmingham Small Arms Company. While successfully completing his task, he took a personal grudge against Shelby and his team. He intended to kill Shelby, but was killed by Shelby’s aunt, Polly, played by Helen McCrory, before he could.
Sam Neill on getting killed in ‘Peaky Blinders’
Neill was killed off in the series, but show creator Steven Knight claimed the performer didn’t want to leave. During the season five premiere, the creator discussed the moment he told the actor about his ambitions for Campbell. Despite Neill’s talent, he thought his character’s plot had come to an end.
“He was in New Zealand and I realized I couldn’t just email him the script, so I called him.” So I called him and said, ‘Sam, this character was beautiful, he was brilliant.’ “And he replied, ‘I don’t want to die,'” the inventor said.
He said he told Neill, “like a coward,” that he would think about Campbell’s murder. Despite what he told the actor, Knight knew Campbell had to die, but he warned him about it out of respect for Neill. After a week, the writer called Neill again to let him know it was a done deal, and the actor said, “Wonderful, great.”
Neill himself said he was unable to attend the show
Many fans predicted that the actor would make an unexpected return after his character was killed at Epsom Racecourse in season two. Neill discussed the hypotheses and his experience on the show during an interview with RadioTimes.com.
“I love Peaky Blinders and I trust Steve [Knight’s] the writing is excellent.” “I’m a big fan of Cillian, Helen and Paul Anderson [Arthur Shelby]and it’s always great to have them again because I missed them,” the actor remarked.
He then spoke about his time on Peaky Blinders, noting that despite filming in “some really dark places in the world”, he had a great time and learned a lot. Neill’s role was a villain, but he enjoyed playing it. Although he did not specifically respond to the ideas, many fans interpreted his response as suggesting that he would return to the program. Unfortunately, Neill never made the much-anticipated comeback, and the series ended abruptly. However, Shelby and his team from Birmingham are not out of the woods yet. They will make their penultimate and final appearance in the film, which Knight has announced will be released in 2021.
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