Luca Changretta

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Evil-doer
Full Name	Luca Changretta
Alias	Mr. Changretta
Origin	Peaky Blinders
Occupation	American Crime lord Leader of the Black hand
Powers / Skills	High Intellect Leadership Business Savvy Intuition Charisma Gunmanship Strategy & Adaptibility Vast wealth and resources Bilingualism
Goals	Kill every single member of the Shelby Family, except for the underaged members, for killing his father and brother. (succeeded with John Shelby; failed with the rest of the Shelbys) Take over the criminal underworld of Birmingham.(Ultimately failed)
Crimes	Mass Murder Attempted Murder Assault Death threats Blackmail Bootlegging Traffiking Organized crime Gang warfare Trespassing Corruption Reckless Endangerment
Type of Villain	Vengeful Mobster

“	Instead of sending you a black hand, I could've had you killed in the night. You don't know why...But I want you to know why, and I wanna suggest to you that we fight this vendetta with honor.	„
	~ Luca Changretta to Thomas Shelby

Luca Changretta is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Father Hughes) of the BBC series Peaky Blinders. He is the main antagonist of Season 4.

He is a crime lord who seeks revenge on the Shelby family for ordering the death of his father Vicente in the previous seasons. He is the arch-nemesis of Arthur Shelby.

He is portrayed by Adrien Brody, who has also portayed Flavio Volpe in Giallo, Dmitri Desgoffe-und-Taxis in The Grand Budapest Hotel, Sterling Frost Jr. in Poker Face, and Leveque in Ghosted.

Biography

Luca learned that the Shelbys killed his father from his mother as a result of Tommy's brothers Arthur and John deciding to spare her against Tommy's orders. Luca then tried to have Tommy and his family killed, resulting in John's death.

Despite his crimes Luca was still a man of honor and agreed when Tommy asked that no children or innocent people be hurt, a promise he kept. Luca used the mother of a boxer Arthur killed to attempt to murder him but the attempt failed.

Luca made a deal with Tommy's aunt, Polly, to spare her son Michael in exchange for selling out Tommy. It ultimately turned out that Tommy and Polly have put aside their difference to plotting together to lure Luca into a trap at Tommy's gin distillery. Believing he had won the vendetta, Luca expected the remaining Shelbys to sign their business over to his organization as a way to spare their lives and put an end to the family feud. Demanding Thomas to sign the necessary papers on his knees in front of him, Tommy revealed that he had made contact with a rival businessman of the Changrettas in America, a crime lord named Alphonse Capone, which Luca reacted to with great disdain. Tommy continued, explaining that with Capone’s help they managed to bribe Luca’s remaining bodyguards, since the family members loyal to Luca had been killed during the conflict. Seeing that he was now on his own, Luca attempted to shoot Tommy, which led to a brutal final struggle between the two. Luca was beaten and cut with gin bottles before being executed by a re-emerging Arthur Shelby.

Luca realized he had been tricked into believing his assassination plot against Arthur had succeeded. As a result, the Changrettas never officially won the vendetta, and Arthur finally managed to take revenge for John by shooting the Italian Gangster in the head, putting a stop to the feud once and for all. The bullet hit a distillery vat behind Changretta, pouring alcohol over his slumped body.

Luca’s corpse was dragged out by his henchmen, with Tommy stating that he would have the import license sent to them along with 300 barrels of gin on their way to Chicago. Arthur added that they should tell their boss what they had seen that day and “not to fuck with the Peaky Blinders.”

Trivia

• Among crosses and other religious symbols, he has a black hand tattoo on his right wrist symbolizing the “black hand letter” he delivers to the Peaky Blinders. The tattoos not only reflect Luca’s Catholic devotion but also his pride in his Italian criminal syndicate and his role as an instrument of vengeance.
• Luca’s final words before being shot, “And you, Matteo?”, echo Julius Caesar’s popularized last words, “You too, Brutus?”. Similar to Brutus, Matteo was a close and trusted ally of Luca, seemingly treated like family, but ultimately betrayed his boss to serve his own ends.