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Brad Pitt has asked for a role in hit BBC TV crime drama Peaky Blinders, according to its creator Steven Knight.

Since it debuted on the BBC in 2013, the show, which follows a crime family in Birmingham, England, in the 1920s, has become a huge hit — success that has attracted stars, such as Tom Hardy and Adrien Brody, to join the cast.

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According to The Guardian, Knight told fans at the recent Legitimate Peaky Blinders Festival in Birmingham that Pitt had asked for a role in the show, and teased his potential involvement.