Barry Keoghan Reveals He Wants to Play a New James Bond Villain (Exclusive)

Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan are dishing on the new movie “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.” 

“Extra” spoke with the two about working together again, after Cillian texted Barry on Father's Day asking if he wanted to play his son.

Barry recalled, "A text message, yeah, happy Father's Day and Cillian asked me did I want to play his son in 'Peaky Blinders.'"

Referencing their film “Dunkirk,” Cillian noted, "We’d worked together a long time ago and we’d stayed in touch… I’ve just been admiring Barry’s work since then.”

According to Cillian, Barry “was the only choice for us,” adding, “You need a really, really special actor for the part.”

Barry also spoke about portraying the challenging father-son dynamics.

When asked about playing the character, Barry commented, "Steven [Knight] — incredible writer and everything is on the page for you — but also just bringing your own sort of experience to that world as well and the father dynamics and the effects of having an absent father and stuff… There’s a lot I could pull from there, to be honest… and a lot of truth I could tell."

And since writer Knight is doing the next James Bond film, could Barry or Cillian be in it? 

Barry answered, “I don’t think I’d play Bond. It’s such a role that requires you to know, certain things… I’d like to come in and do the villain.”

Cillian joked that he's “kind of busy,” but said of Barry's answer, “That’s a headline right there.”

Murphy also spoke about returning to the "Peaky" world with a movie grounded in the theme of family. 

He said, “I was really happy with the way the show had developed and evolved over six seasons, and I liked the ambiguity of the ending of six."

Cillian continued, "We always had an ambition to make a film, it was just a question of what sort of film it would be. The strongest theme in all of 'Peaky' is really family, so if you made sort of a fitting conclusion to it that is all about family, then I think you've got something that is, you know, really a return to fans for their investment in the film. That’s what was my biggest motivation for it.”