Stranger Things star Charlie Heaton has swapped the Upside Down for The Garrison.
Netflix and the BBC have unveiled a first-look image of Heaton and revealed he will play Tommy Shelby‘s eldest son Charles Shelby in Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders sequel series.
Heaton can be seen staring the camera down, looking every bit a Shelby. Having fought a violent war, much of it behind enemy lines, Charles Shelby is now embracing normality. He hasn’t seen his half-brother Duke – played by Jamie Bell (All of Us Strangers, Rocketman) – in years. Charles severed all ties to the Peaky Blinders gang, and the hedonistic Shelby lifestyle. But the series asks, ‘Can you ever escape your own blood?’
The new series is set a decade after World War Two and comes after the movie, The Immortal Man, which aired on Netflix.
Also new to the series are Jessica Brown Findlay (Silo, The Flatshare), Lashana Lynch (The Day of The Jackal, No Time to Die), and Lucy Karczewski (Stereophonic) in her TV debut. Details of these roles will be shared at a later date.
Peaky Blinders is currently being filmed in and around Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham and is produced by Kudos with Garrison Drama.
