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
character kitten knows type
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.
character television lines
And, for any performer, to be able to go deep into character is fantastic. In film you only get to do that if you're the leading character. But in television you get 18 hours to really test the audience and take them to the edge of how far they will go with this character. I can step over this line and I love that.
character skins shy
I don't consider myself a shy person necessarily, but there's something about getting under the skin of a character and allowing you an abandon or a sense of courage that you would never have in your own life.
character thinking play
I think if you play characters, it's very important not to ever tag them with any sort of disorder, or diagnose them, or whatever. You have to normalize the behavior to get inside the character.
character important actors
I'm Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able to embody whatever character it is, wherever the character comes from. That's always been important, for me. I'm an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor.
honesty character thinking
You do your due diligence, you read as much as you can, and then, ultimately, I find that you discard that and you concentrate on the characters [of 'Antropoid'] and you can draw on [the research] if you wish, but I think ultimately it's about bringing as much truth and honesty to the portrayal as possible.
character play littles
It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary
across darker greater might potential stuff
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.
anxieties brings turns universal
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.
audience exploit fears films knows manipulate movies obviously particular reaction seems sort
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.
hope inform preference
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.