Cillian Murphy is a true method actor as it was revealed he smoked a staggering 1,000 cigarettes in just one series of Peaky Blinders.
The Cork native plays chainsmoking gangster Tommy Shelby in the 1920s drama and his co-star Helen McCrory revealed he's one of the biggest smokers on set.
During a Q&A at the British Film Institute (BFI), Helen, who plays Aunt Polly, was asked how many cigarettes the cast have to smoke each season.
She joked: "Let me show you my lungs." She then added: "Cillian apparently, and I can’t remember which season, the props guys reckoned about a thousand."
But she quipped: "No actors were killed in the making of Peaky Blinders. We don't inhale."
The Shelby family are facing even more turmoil in season five of the acclaimed show as the family business is plunged into difficulty with the Wall Street collapse of 1929.
Enterprising Tommy is now an MP in London where Oswald Mosley appears on the political scene with a major proposition for him.
Based on a real-life figure, Mosley is a politician and baronet who is a rising star of the Labour Party in 1929.
He will cross paths with fellow rising politician Tommy Shelby, who is now a Labour MP himself following the end of season 4, but will they be fast friends or deadly enemies?
