00:00Stephen, I have to start out by asking you why now was the time for Tommy to die?
00:06I always knew that this was going to be the way it ends.
00:10Because Tommy Shelby doesn't retire and play golf.
00:13It's got to go in that spectacular way.
00:16And I always wanted it to be a film and wanted it to be in the Second World War.
00:21And then as the story develops, because it's about father and son,
00:25there's a line in the series where Tommy Shelby says,
00:29the only person who can kill Tommy Shelby is Tommy Shelby.
00:32And I didn't want that actually.
00:34So the next thing that came along is that this is about succession, handing over the crown.
00:40And people very kindly say there's something Shakespearean about it, which is great.
00:44You know, in other words, it's something that feels quite fundamental about father-son relationship.
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