For Adrien Brody, playing Luca Changretta was a dream come true. He had been waiting for a character like this, and when Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight wrote the role specifically for him ...

As Luca, Brody is a mobster straight out of the Marlon Brando school of mumbling. It's a world away from the tortured performance in The Pianist that won him his Oscar in 2003.