Cillian Murphy on Hollywood’s Press Tours: “Everybody Is So Bored”

Cillian Murphy awaits Hollywood to re-invent the wheel on its press trips. “I just think it’s a broken model,” the Oppenheimer celebrity informed GQ in a cover tale. “Everybody is so bored.”

Murphy confessed he was a little bit eased when the SAG-AFTRA strike stopped him from participating in Oppenheimer‘s opening weekend. He also pointed to his film’ s success– along with Barbie, both movies’ Barbenheimer fad collection documents at package workplace last summertime– as proof that journalism would not also have actually been essential nevertheless.

“Same was the case with Peaky Blinders,” Murphy proceeded of the program in which he played lead character Thomas “Tommy” Shelby throughout of the program’s 6 periods. “The first three seasons there was no advertising, a tiny show on BBC Two; it just caught fire because people talked to each other about it.”

“It’s like Joanne Woodward said,” he included. “‘Acting is like sex — do it, don’t talk about it.’ ”

Murphy cleared up that it’s not the facility of press that he disapproval, yet the surface-level uniformity it has actually come to be. “People always used to say to me, ‘He has reservations,’ or ‘He’s a difficult interviewee.’ Not really,” he claimed.“I love talking about work, about art. What I struggle with — and find unnecessary — and unhelpful about what I want to do, is: ‘Tell me about yourself…’”

On a relevant note, he likewise described why he will not take pictures with followers on the road any longer. “Once I started [saying no],” he claimed, “it changed my life. I just think it’s better to say hello and have a little conversation. I tell that to a lot of people, you know, actor friends of mine, and they’re just like: I feel so bad. But you don’t need a photo record of everywhere you’ve been in a day.”

Murphy included that he’s not a large follower of seeing himself. “Many of my films I haven’t seen,” he claimed.“I know that Johnny Depp would always say that, but it’s actually true. Generally, the ones I haven’t seen are the ones I hear are not good.”

Among the movies he hasn’t seen is Red Eye. Murphy played a terrorist that catches a resort supervisor (Rachel McAdams) in a murder story while aboard a red eye trip to Miami in the 2005 job. “I love Rachel McAdams, and we had fun making it,” Murphy claimed.“But I don’t think it’s a good movie. It’s a good, B movie.”

However, Murphy is cherished by the recurring fanbase of the movie. “It’s crazy!” he claimed. “I think it’s the duality of it. It’s why I wanted to play it. That two thing. The nice guy and the bad guy in one. The only reason it appealed to me is you could do that…that turn, you know?”

“They say the nicest people sometimes make the best villains,” McAdams informed GQ of Murphy’s efficiency.

This isn’t the very first time he’s shared his ideas on the movie. In 2021, the star informed Uproxx he assumed the motion picture was “schlocky” yet still ensured to applaud McAdams.

“Rachel McAdams is excellent in it, but I didn’t think I gave a very nuanced performance in it,” he claimed. “But, listen, if people love the movie then that’s great.”