Throughout Son of anarchySeven seasons of seven seasons, Filip “Chibs” LEFORD has gone from a support for one of the most important members of Samcro. He even takes over the club after the disappearance of Jax. However, a great mystery in which the spectacle does not plunge in detail is the way the character has received his distinct facial scars.

The truth is that the facial scars of chibs are not part of the makeup. Tommy Flanagan, who played Chibs, was injured in a real knife fight at the age of 25which left him the scars. The incident not only led to a career change for Flanagan, but he also defined the roles that the actor would play in many years to come.

The scars were part of the reason why Tommy Flanagan entered the game

“I went to a knife knife fight,” said the actor to Michael Rosenbaum on his podcast, Inside you. He did DJ in a Glasgow club at the time and worked as a decorator and painter. As the actor remembers, a bunch of guys said they had killed his brother. He took a Heineken bottle and encountered them outside in the aisle, and that resulted in an almost fatal attack. “I ended up looking like that, and they put holes on me,” he said.

He had several knife wounds on his body. At one point, he also tried to hold the knife, which resulted in a long cut on his palm. To date, the actor can still remember what it looked like when a knife has entered his body and the way his body reacted. When he woke up in the hospital, his friend Bobby, who worked as an actor of Raindog Theater Company, asked him to join the most sure world of the theater. However, at that time, Flanagan had not thought about any reflection. He had neither training nor experience, but Bobby’s words reached him.

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In an interview Herald ScotlandFlanagan recalled his Raindog days as an actor in theatrical productions. “I remember shooting in the Highlands in this old blue transport van, but it had a broken window,” he said. “It was so freezing inside, one of us had to maintain a piece of cardboard to prevent the wind. I insisted to drive, so I did not get the project!” The first days were not easy, but looking back, they seem softer than Mer, or what Flanagan would say like “the good old days”. After the attack, everything he could think was to “take a chance in life” and think about his decision. He said that “playing is a love”, even if it was “petrified to go there on stage”. However, his bad days did not last for several years. Flanagan’s start of career was, in fact, filled with classics of all time. Flanagan’s first film was with Mel Gibson Brave heart. He was then in John Woo Face / OFFDavid Fincher The gameand Ridley Scott Gladiator. For an actor who failed to play until the age of 25, his first wallet is impressive to say the least.

Tommy Flanagan used his true Scottish accent in the sons of anarchy

Flanagan grew up in Scotland. As a native of Glasgow, he has a naturally thick accent that even the actor admits can be difficult to understand sometimes. Flanagan also does not take any credit for the Scottish accent of Chibs in the show. In an interview Vulture In 2014, the actor revealed that he had been asked to use his true accent in life. “I told them at the very beginning:” Listen, if you want me to make an accent of Glasgow, I accent in Glasgow. I’m not going to behave, I’m not going to play games, but no one will understand me, “he said. He recalled that the casting directors and Sutter were entirely on board with him becoming Scottish on the show.” They said: “No, we love your accent!” “, He said.

Being able to talk about the way he speaks naturally also had an effect on Flanagan’s approach to the Chibs. Instead of opting for an imagined hard biker, the actor decided to adopt a more personal approach, mixing a little more flanagan in the chibs to make it “as authentic as” he “perhaps”. “If I’m going to simulate, then why the F * CK makes my accent? Why the Irishman or whatever it is, something that is more audible or intelligible for the public?” He said. Although the actor does not remember having obtained Scotland complaints, many fans have found a heavy accent of very intriguing chibs in the series. As for Flanagan, he thought it added “another layer to the whole of Sutter’s madness”.

Although the Chibs are a favorite fans character, Flanagan had in fact mixed feelings on the role. He admitted that the role did not really have much emotional truth, which made him more on the pay check than anything else. “You know, depending on the size of the pay check, that’s all I have to say about it,” said the actor Digital solution. Even if the show was a large part of his life, he admitted that dissatisfaction came from the lack of nuances and real development in the character. “I spent seven years Son of anarchy Standing like a piece of wood, “he said. Although he admitted that when they arrived in season 4, he thought:” Continue to pay me, I’m happy. “For Flanagan, the cast of Son of anarchy became his family at some point.

The name “Chibs” has a real origin

The nickname, “Chibs”, is the Scottish slang for “knife”. In Son of anarchyChibs is one of Samcro’s most difficult members. As an earlier member of the IRA, many past passing remain a mystery under its difficult appearance and its lack of warmth, especially in bloody situations. Flanagan’s scars are part of the character and the background of Chibs, even if this background has never been entirely explained. “Sutter obviously went Googlé somewhere, a long time ago during the pilot,” said Flanagan of the nickname Chibs. He recalled that he had a conversation with Sutter, who asked Flanagan his opinion. Obviously, the actor agreed with this, but retrospectively, Flanagan considered that the nickname was too close to his real accident, since he would play a role that looked like those who attacked him and left him with the scars. “He said,” Do you mind if I call you chibs? “At the time, I didn’t think about it much, so I thought, why did the F * CK accepted this name?

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How did his scars affect Tommy Flanagan’s acting career?

Due to facial scars, Flanagan has played a lot of roles similar to the screen. He has acquired the reputation of being a hard actor. When asked if it was true, the actor admitted that “in the cinema world, that’s for sure”. He wanted to be “put in a small box” in Hollywood. “To be honest, Hollywood is full of Sh ***. It’s full of people who tell you how much they love you, but I just think:” Oh F *** OFF. “This is why I stay high in the hills and the only time I take care of these people, it is when I work and take the pay check,” said Flanagan to Herald Scotland in the same interview. He also thought that the directors were “afraid” of him because of his “image of television television”, which brought him both good things and bad things.

On the other hand, nothing lasts forever, even something traumatic and apparently permanent, like a horrible attack which left him scars. Finally, they became less relevant in the casting decisions and the roles that Flanagan would play. In 2014, almost two decades later, the actor had moved. “I think I can hold mine,” said the actor when he had softer roles at the time. “These are no longer the scars. I no longer see the scars. It is only the old story now. It was a horrible thing that happened 20 years ago. I don’t think of a second. It’s just like a big wrinkle on my face.”

So how did Chibs received the scars on the sons of anarchy?

As we noted at the beginning, the origins of chibs scars have never been a MAJOR plot on Son of anarchy. However, this does not mean that it has not been revealed. Not only was it revealed, but it was an important part of the intrigue of Chibs in season 2 and the end of season 3. You see, the group, the real IRA, was the main suppliers of fire arms of Samcro on the series, and their leader was Jimmy O’Phelan (played by Titus Welliver). Chibs was once part of the real IRA after being the martial court of the British army (Chibs was born in Scotland, but he lived in Northern Ireland for a long time).

Chibs married an Irishman named Fiona Larkin, and he had a daughter named Kerrianne. However, when O’Phelan threw him out of the real Ira, he prohibited him from Ireland, and he gave the scars of the face of Chibs, known as “the smile of Glasgow”. O’Phelan then met with the ex-wife of Chibs and indeed became the stepfather of Kerianne. Naturally, Chibs did not want to interact much with O’Phelan, but in season 2, he was forced when O’Phelan decided to go to the United States to solidify the relationship between real IRA and Samcro. Chibs was forced by others to put aside his differences with O’Phelan for the good of the organization. He was not willing to do so, but O’Phelan wanted it to happen, and he threatened Chibs with an innuendo according to which Jimmy could do something with the daughter of Chibs, who is, as Jimmy notes, “reached a good age and in addition, she is not really her daughter.”

Chibs was obviously sent in shock by this threat, and he began to conspire an agreement to work with ATF to bring Jimmy to fall if it meant protecting his family. Chibs finally decided not to go with it. However, at the end of season 3, through a variety of betrayals and double crosses, Jimmy and the others were able to exceed the ATF (killing agent June Stahl) and Jimmy. Chibs was able to kill Jimmy, giving him the same “Glasgow smile” that Jimmy gave him, then used Jimmy’s blood to mark the real symbol will go to the car of the murdered agent Stahl, thus framing the real I will go for his murder. The last thing Jimmy said to Chibs before his death was: “Take care of our Filip daughters, yeah?” (The real Chibs first name was Filip).

Now, the story of the real life of Flanagan’s scars is probably more interesting, but it is always fascinating to see how the spectacle has been able to work so much the background of Flanagan’s real life in the show in different ways, with the Chibs / Jimmy rivalry which ended with the final of season 3 being probably the most notable example.

Son of anarchy

Release date

2008 – 2013

Network

Fx

Showrunner

Kurt Sutter

Directors

Kurt Sutter

Writers

Kurt Sutter, Chris Collins

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