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Cillian Murphy for So It Goes magazine [2014]

"The thing that peaked my interest in acting was originally theatre, it wasn’t film — I was interested in film but it never seemed like a possibility — whereas theatre did. I was very lucky in that I got to work with great theatre companies and directors in Ireland, and work on great material very quickly. It was the only training ground I knew. The classic way of playing small parts, then playing slightly bigger parts." [x]

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New photos of Cillian Murphy as they appear in the print edition of the Sunday Times Magazine. Check out the interview and more photos here

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“Follow the writing,” is the simple rule of thumb for actor Cillian Murphy when it comes to deciding what roles to choose. And that is regardless of whether the medium is film, TV or theatre.

Cillian is currently rehearsing for the Galway production of Enda Walsh’s new play, Ballyturk, alongside fellow cast members Stephen Rea and Mikel Murfi. The play, also directed by Enda Walsh, will open at Galway International Arts Festival next month and is sold out. It’s the latest collaboration between long-time friends Enda and Cillian.

“I was lucky as a kid to meet Enda, and he gave me my first big role,” says Cillian, referring to Disco Pigs, the 1996 play that announced Enda Walsh’s arrival as a dramatist to be reckoned with. Since that Corcadorca production, the two have worked together on other projects, most notably the 2011 hit, Misterman.

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28 Days Later… (2002)

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Our last, best hope

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I am always interested by people in jeopardy, situations where the stakes are raised. I’ve always liked the idea of the everyday man in extraordinary situations. ~ Cillian Murphy, So It Goes.

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If you’re into a grumpy grungy ginger-scruffed Cillian and who isn’t, then Aloft is going to be your kind of film! A new 3 minute clip featuring Cillian and Melanie Laurent posted at the link. (X)

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After I made this gif I realized it almost looks like he’s being given an endless amount of glasses. After a while you’d think he’d get frustrated, like, “Dammit, I asked for a glass of water, not a million. Fuck, stop. I’m running out of places to put these. Where the hell are you even getting them from?”

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Cillian explains why he loves doing theatre in the new issue of So It Goes magazine (photo from Misterman in NY, 2011)

What I love about theatre is the sort of implausibility of it, the absurdity of it: at any point it could all go terribly wrong. Someone forgets their lines or the lights break, the curtain doesn’t go up, somebody in the audience misbehaves. I like that, I love the fragility of live performance.

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Melanie Laurent and Cillian Murphy at the ‘Aloft’ press conference during 64th Berlinale International Film Festival (x)

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Cillian and his socks being ridiculously adorable at a Q&A he did for the UNESCO Child and Family Research Center at NUI Galway a couple of weeks ago. Video from the event is now online. (X)

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Cillian Murphy participated in a collaborative music project held at The Model Sligo on Saturday night as part of Mark Garry’s latest exhibition ‘A Winter Light’. The album will be released later this year. Musicians included Oliver Alcorn, Sean Carpio, Eileen Carpio, Nina Hynes*, Cillian Murphy, Padraig Murphy and Robert Stilman along with Mark Garry and acclaimed French producer and engineer Fabien Leseure.

*Nina Hynes performed So New with Cillian on the Disco Pigs soundtrack way back when

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Music is constant journey. You’re always discovering and that’s the beauty of it. It never ends. ~ Cillian Murphy

In a new interview with TheLineofBestFit.com Cillian talks about directing the music video for MONEY last April. Here are a few photos from that shoot. Wearing his favourite striped t. :)

Also included in the interview is a playlist with his 5 favourite music videos

Blur, Coffee and TV

Radiohead, Lotus Flower

John Hopkins, Open Eye Signal

Justice, Stress

MIA, Bad Girls

Check out the whole interview plus videos. (X)  The MONEY video’s here.

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Ya think I’m cute now?

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Cillian Murphy by Christian Oita for Clash, 2012

Clash magazine distributed a special limited edition issue at the Cannes film festival in May 2013. It included an interview with Cillian, a follow up to his 2012 Clash cover. Some new info about what it was like to work with a predominantly female cast/crew on Cry/Fly, learning falconry and how he felt about shaving off the Misterman beard! (X)

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I’ll tell you what’s really interesting about Cillian which I hadn’t suspected. He’s a serious stage actor. I have incredible stage fright. It’s awful. Filming holds no fear for me. It’s just where I live. But he [Cillian] is the absolute polar opposite. He’s really nervous about film. I really like that. I actually admire it. Every film is a battle which I think is very useful.  ~ Tim Roth (X)