Give me time and I’ll try and write something worth reading. Social Awkward, Depressed Loner who prefers the fantasy world in my head sometimes to reality.
Some quotes from the incredible Benjamin Zephaniah about Peaky that I've always loved:
"I really liked the character when I read the script. My father was a preacher, so there's a part of me that connected; the preacher bit came naturally to me. When I have to give sermons in the show I can go off script easily. There was one scene that didn't make the cut, where I'm preaching in the bar. You see a little bit of it, but msot of it was edited out. I had to do some real hellfire preaching. I remember running through it and Cillian turned to me and said "Shit, I believe you, father.""
"I love playing him. Something strange happens every time I go on set. When I put the clothes on, I slightly push my stomach out, to give me a bit more of a pot belly. I'm pretty flat-stomached, but I like to just push it out a bit; I stand in a slightly different way. We all do that: I watch Cillian when he dresses. As soon as he's got his gear on, he walks with his hands slightly out by his sides. And then Paul puts on a really growling Arthur voice: 'You going for dinner, Benjamin?' And he just goes into character straight away. I remember when I was first doing it, I read the first words I had to speak, and I said, 'How do you want me to do this, Brummie or Caribbean, or what?' The director said, 'However you want to do it; don't come too heavy on the Caribbean, but don't overdo the Birmingham.' So the voice, especially when l'm preaching, is the same voice I use when I'm reading poetry live. It's a bit more Jamaican than my speaking voice. My speaking voice has become more English over the years. So, with the clothes on, my belly out, look in the mirror and l know its happened. It's usually when I put the hat on and the cross around my neck. That's it: im Jeremiah Jesus."
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