Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphyis an Irish actor of stage and screen. Since making his debut in his home country in the late 1990s, Murphy has also become a presence in British and American cinema—noted by critics for his performances in a wide range of roles...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth25 May 1976
CityDouglas, Ireland
CountryIreland
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Sometimes the darker stuff has greater potential for drama, it's always interesting to investigate things that you might come across in your own life.
noticed people time
That was the first time people noticed me in the U.S..
fun great irish script
That was a fun script and a lot of great Irish actors.
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That's the point. You think you could be in that situation. It brings up all those universal anxieties about flying, even before the story turns dark.
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I think one of those comes around once in every career, that type of role. I play a character called Kitten Brady, who everyone knows is a transvestite. That's part of it, but it's not the whole story.
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He obviously knows through his movies how to exploit terror, and he seems to be able to investigate fears that we all have and exploit them or magnify them. There's a particular way of doing films like this. There's a particular way to manipulate the audience to get sort of a reaction out of them, and he can do that.
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I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way.
boils people
For me, this is a film about people under pressure. That's what it fundamentally boils down to.
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I am very different to Colin Farrell. I admire him tremendously. We are both Irish and are both the same age,
favorite irish jordan neil
Neil Jordan is one of my favorite directors. Not just because he's Irish and I'm Irish. In the world of directors, he's one of those guys.
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Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.
What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.
trying needs actors
You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.
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But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third season - tell the story of this man. You're not under any obligation, really, to do massive expositional stuff at the beginning. You're at liberty to say, "Come with us on this journey," and, gradually, you become aware of what his motivations are, what drives him, what his weaknesses are, what his strengths are. That's what I think's sucking people into these worlds, because it is kind of like a novel, you just go really, really deep.