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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He's this kid growing up in a small town in Ireland in the 70's--you know the height of the troubles in Ireland, ... He discovers he's an adopted orphan and that his father is actually this parish priest, played by Liam Neeson. So it's just this crazy mad journey that he goes on to find his love.
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He's just a kid who was quite effeminate and obviously gay, but he wasn't a Tootsie trying to pass.
What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.
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He's a wonderful, beautiful misfit, and he tends to trust and fall in love with people immediately.
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He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.
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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.
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For me, this is a film about people under pressure. That's what it fundamentally boils down to.
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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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That was the first time people noticed me in the U.S..
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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 don't worry about it, ... I just worked with Neil Jordan on 'Breakfast On Pluto,' where I play an Irish transvestite singer in a London cabaret.'