MICHAEL IS BACK ON HOME SOIL
“You’ve got Polly as this matriarch and she’s every bit as bad**s as Tommy. You know, she’s not there going, ‘Oooh, Tommy dearest!”’
FINN IS ALL GROWN UP
ONE character who we will see has changed a lot is the youngest Shelby brother, Finn.
As Harry Kirton – who plays him – puts it, after not wanting to get involved in the violence before, this series Finn is “learning what it’s like to do things alone, compared to being guided and assisted”.
Essentially, he’s become a darker person to play.
“I feel like he still has the same heart, but the veil keeps on getting thinner and thinner, he hasn’t got so much of a protection,” reasons Harry, who was just 15 when he was cast in the show.
“As he gets older, there’s more distance between the brothers, and it goes on a darker descent, but then there are some way more lighter bits.
“Relationships deepen because of the things and the choices I’ve now made, through a darkened path.”
THE last time we saw Michael (Tommy’s cousin and Polly’s son) he was on his way to America.
And at the start of series 5, he’s enjoying life in Detroit, when the Stock Market crashes.
“He inevitably comes back to Birmingham to see how he can help figure out this mess,” says the actor behind him, 23-year-old Finn Cole.
“At the end of last season, how I hoped it came across, he was definitely reluctant to go, so I think there is a part of him that wants to be with this family and this gang.”
Tommy wasn’t exactly very happy with Michael at the end of the last series. Asked if we will see the two men pitted against each other eventually, Finn says as this season goes on “we see more of Michael’s true colours”.
“Whether or not that’s going to manifest itself in a huge head-tohead with any of these main characters, that’s what we have yet to uncover,” elaborates the star, also known for horror comedy film Slaughterhouse Rulez.
“But we start to see his potential and his ideologies growing, and that’s going to allow for some really cool story points to follow.”
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