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Hardy and Considine portray Harry Da Souza and Kevin Harrigan, respectively, in Paramount+'s MobLand. The series centers around two crime families, the Harrigans and the Stevensons, as their warring ways threaten the lives of everyone involved. Hardy's Harry, an outsider in these bloodline battles, is brought in as the Harrigans' "fixer," a role that sees him negotiating peace, or at least some definition of the word.

ScreenRant spoke with Hardy and Considine to discuss their individual characters' perspectives on the brewing tension between MobLand's power pedigrees as well as how this experience compares to a previous UK-based crime series that they worked on together.

Tom Hardy & Paddy Considine Reunite Years After Peaky Blinders Ended

"It's a very different show, in some aspects..."

Alfie Solomons and Father John Hughes find themselves back together again. Nearly one decade after sharing the screen in Peaky Blinders Season 3, Tom Hardy and Paddy Considine are once again in the thick of a criminal empire in MobLand.

"It's a very different show, in some aspects," Hardy told ScreenRant when asked how the MobLand experience with Considine compares to Peaky Blinders. "[Paddy was] a priest. I was Alfie Solomons. He was a man of the cloth. I was a man of the cloth as well, in some aspects, and in this (MobLand), we are neither men of the cloth. We're a couple of crooks. It's just a different field to be. Crooks. We're crooks again."

While Hardy's Harry Da Souza does not exactly have his hands clean, he's a far more calm character compared to Alfie Solomons, who operated as a gang leader within the Peaky Blinders world. Harry serves as a fixer for the Harrigans, which involves him negotiating the family's problems for them, whether verbally or physically.

"The majority of it will be negotiation, money, ideology, coercion, corruption, ego and influence."

"The last thing you want to do is be violent or push the last option," Hardy said of Harry's negotiating style. "You'd give an opportunity to have an off-ramp as many times as needed, and if in doubt, do nothing in situations that can be understood or come to an arrangement before someone has to get murdered.

"That seems to be pretty realistic, in some aspects, because the level of power that the Harrigans are playing at, they are foot soldiers dealing with that, which you don't really see on screen," Hardy continued. "There's a huge network underneath them. I suppose you'd see more obvious physical violence going on."

Kevin's Growing Concern With Eddie's Ascent In The Harrigan Family

"He's Not Equipped At This Point. It Would Be Chaos..."

While Hardy's Harry willingly steps into the crossfire, Considine's Kevin is born into it. Kevin is the son of Pierce Brosnan's Conrad Harrigan, the patriarch of the Harrigan family. As if being the child of a crime lord wasn't enough stress, Kevin has to deal with his rebellious son Eddie (Anson Boon), a teenager well aware of his family's power and influence.

"I think Eddie's a liability as far as Kevin's concerned," Considine said. "Talking about him taking over, he is a kid. He's not equipped at this point and he's not being trained in the way of somebody that would have the ability to take over. It would be chaos. Why that chaos is being created, I don't know, and Kevin doesn't know, but it's too out of control for someone to be running a crime family. From Kevin's point of view, that's the problem with his dad. I was looking at Conrad thinking, 'This guy's losing the plot here.'"

Kevin's self-awareness allows him to serve as the viewer's perspective. "Kevin, almost throughout the show, becomes the eyes of the audience observing this family going, 'This is falling apart. This is too crazy. My dad never used to be this guy,'" Considine continued. "He was always the maniac, but it was considered organized. Now it's just becoming mental. I think Kevin's looking at the people around him thinking this is going off the rails and somebody needs to take a hold of it and that isn't somebody like Eddie."

MobLand streams new episodes every Sunday on Paramount+.

Source: ScreenRant Plus