Paul Anderson’s Peaky Blinders future has been thrown into query after the actor was discovered with crack cocaine.
The actor, who was lined as much as return as Arthur Shelby for forthcoming movie adaptation of the BBC sequence, has been fined for possession of medication after being discovered with a collection of substances in a Hampstead pub on Boxing Day 2023.
Anderson, 48, appeared in courtroom on Thursday (25 January), the place he pleaded responsible to possessing class A crack cocaine, class B amphetamines and two class C prescription substances. He was fined £1,345.
According to Mail Online, police had been known as after a pub supervisor found what he believed had been crack cocaine fumes coming from the disabled rest room after Anderson had been in there.
The British actor, whose different credit embrace The Revenant and the latest Kevin Hart movie Lift, was reportedly taken to a police station the place crack cocaine, amphetamines, diazepam and pregabalin had been discovered.
Anderson’s lawyer is believed to have instructed the courtroom that he had not been smoking crack cocaine, saying: “He has found himself in an unfortunate position and should have had the strength to say no.”
It’s reported his lawyer added: “You will recognise the defendant from a very intense part that he has played in a recent television programme. He is often recognised and does his best to please fans of the show by slipping into character.
“He was recognised that Boxing Day and tried to play up for these people – and because of the lifestyle he leads, people often give him inducements.”
The Independent has contacted the BBC for remark.
Peaky Blinders concluded in April 2022, with the present set to return to the large display screen with a movie written by creator Steven Knight. Anderson starred as Arthur Shelby, the older brother of Cillian Murphy’s Thomas Shelby, from the very first episode, which was broadcast in 2013.
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Paul Anderson as Arthur Shelby in ‘Peaky Blinders’
His inclusion within the movie is now in query following the high quality, with an insider telling The Daily Star that it creates “huge problems” for manufacturing.
They added: “It will be so hard to have a Peaky Blinders film without such a pivotal character, while it will be tough having him reprise the role as if nothing has happened. The third option would be to cancel the entire thing.”