Vinnie Jones wishes he’d been in ‘Peaky Blinders’
Vinnie Jones has said he wishes he had been in the cast of the BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders.
The ‘90s football star transitioned into acting after his playing career, appearing in a number of high-profile films including Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and Gone In 60 Seconds.
He is also about to make his stage debut as Danny Driscoll in Only Fools And Horses: The Musical, for a three week run at the Hammersmith Apollo in London.
While promoting that show, he has appeared on Chris Moyles’ show on Radio X, and has opened up about his desire to have been cast in the hit Birmingham-set show with Cillian Murphy.
“…Fools and Horses, it’s one of them where you look at it, same as that Peaky Blinders,” he said. “I wish I’d have done that, because I thought I was made for that as well.”
“Some things you think you’re made for,” he added.
He went on to discuss the “honour” of being involved in the stage musical of the popular sitcom, describing it as every footballer of his generation’s favourite TV show.
Jones also starred in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen series on Netflix earlier this year, which has been recommissioned for a second season. The show was a spinoff from Ritchie’s 2019 feature film of the same name.
Peaky Blinders ran for six seasons from 2013 to 2022 and followed the titular crime gang in the aftermath of the First World War. Alongside Murphy, the show starred Helen McCrory, Joe Cole, Sam Neill and Tom Hardy.
A spinoff film, The Immortal Man, is in the works, written by series creator Steven Knight and directed by Tom Harper, who directed three episodes of the show. Murphy will reprise his role of Tommy Shelby, alongside Stephen Graham, Rebecca Ferguson, Barry Keoghan and Tim Roth. The film will be distributed by Netflix, but no release date has been confirmed.
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