Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox Crowds that excitedly gathered in Castlefield to see the Peaky Blinders set were fooled by convincing lookalikes.
One of the professional imitators said they unintentionally caused a stir when they decided to go and take photos on the Manchester set.
Aron Walker, who works part-time as an Alfie Solomons doppelganger, says that hundreds of fans of the series followed him through Castlefield believing he was Tom Hardy.
He was visiting the set with his friends and fellow lookalikes Scott Blower (Cillian Murphy, or the main man Tommy Shelby) and Mark Goodstone (John Shelby) earlier this month.
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