“With Peaky Blinders, I never really got out of the gates in that role”, he told The Metro.
Peaky Blinders is doing it in the UK now and I think this is, I think this is the one that’s going to move the conversation forward.
I actually chose to leave Peaky Blinders because I wanted to explore new avenues and new characters and new stories.”
Joe Cole reveals that one of the reasons he left his role as John Shelby on Peaky Blinders was because the Birmingham gang drama focussed so heavily on Cillian Murphy’s character.