Yahoo News Cillian Murphy is not a fan of his Peaky Blinders hair
You know how it goes if you play a lead part in a major project – sometimes you can't help but inspire a fashion craze.
Between Princess Leia's signature "cinnamon bun" hairstyle and Jennifer Aniston's iconic 'The Rachel' cut, the girls have had their hair trends covered for a while now.
And since BBC's Peaky Blinders premiered back in 2013, Cillian Murphy has come along to give the boys some serious hair inspiration in the form of the undercut too.
Not that Cillian necessarily understands why that is. In fact, he's not a fan of the style at all.
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"People like the undercut thing; people go to the barber and ask for a 'Peaky cut'," he told ShortList in a recent interview. "It's crazy that people like it, it's not grown on me in four years now. I normally keep my hair long."
And besides being a bit too short for Cillian's liking, the undercut itself is also very much a product of its time. Which seems to be another reason against it for the actor.
He continued: "Do they realise, the people in turtlenecks in Hackney with this haircut, do they realise it was styled this way to prevent lice? Tell 'em they've got the lice cut, see what they say then."
Peaky Blinders, which focuses on a ruthless gang run by Murphy's character Thomas Shelby in post-World War I Birmingham has recently wrapped filming on its fourth season, so we're that much closer to finding out what happened to the gang after they were all thrown behind bars at the end of season three.
But before we can get too caught up in what's next for Thomas and co, we'll be seeing Cillian as a shell-shocked soldier in Christopher Nolan's epic (and really very brilliant) Dunkirk.
The actor also opened up on working with director for the fifth time too.
"Look, I mean, you never know if [Chris is] going to call you or not," Cillian added. "The thing about him is, yes, there are big set pieces, but his priority is characterisation. That's how he gets such strong performances from his actors. That's generally how it's been since I've known him."
The full interview appears in this week's issue of ShortList, which is available now.
Peaky Blinders series four will air later this year on BBC Two, while Dunkirk is out in cinemas on Friday (July 21).
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