Cillian Murphy: Actors on Actors

Cillian Murphy

Awards Season 2023/2024 is well underway! OPPENHEIMER star Cillian Murphy sat down with BARBIE‘s Margot Robbie to discuss the experience of being the biggest summer box office sensation since AVENGERS and what it was like working with Christopher Nolan and Greta Gerwig. And, because she’s such a Cillian fan, Margot wanted to know about plans for a PEAKY BLINDERS movie. Don’t miss this!

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Murphy to receive OPPENHEIMER award

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The Palm Springs International Film Awards announced on Friday that Cillian Murphy will receive the 2023 Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor, for his role in Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER. Murphy, the Irish actor, portrayed American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the atomic bomb, in Nolan’s epic biography, which has grossed nearly a billion dollars worldwide. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 15, 2024.

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Cillian Murphy in A QUIET PLACE 3

Cillian Murphy

Horror threequel A QUIET PLACE 3 is officially in development, and here’s everything we know so far about the release, cast, plot, and more. As with the last installment in the franchise, A QUIET PLACE 3 is expected to continue focusing on the surviving members of the Abbott family. OPPENHEIMER star, Cillian Murphy, is expected to reprise his role as Emmett.

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OPPENHEIMER makes history

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Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER has overtaken BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY as the highest ever grossing biopic. The film starring Cillian Murphy as the father of the atomic bomb, Robert J. Oppenheimer, has now grossed $912.7 million across the globe. It is also Nolan’s third highest grossing film, after THE DARK KNIGHT and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

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PEAKY BLINDERS movie update

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On the show’s 10-year anniversary, PEAKY BLINDERS creator, Steven Knight, has confirmed the story “is not yet over”. It hardly seems believable that it’s 10 years since Tommy Shelby first rode that black horse through the streets of Birmingham. The message was shared to the official Peaky Blinders Instagram page, which added: “Huge thanks to our incredible fans for the past ten years. Here’s to the next ten…” Following the show’s season six finale last year, Knight revealed plans to make a film that would serve as the seventh and final chapter.

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Cillian Murphy on WTF Podcast

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Recorded on June 27, 2023, Cillian tells Marc the lessons he learned from directors like Ken Loach and Christopher Nolan, with whom he’s collaborated on six films. They also talk about PEAKY BLINDERS, 28 DAYS LATER, and trying on the BATMAN suit. Murphy knew he wanted to become an actor when he saw A Clockwork Orange. Not the Kubrick film, but an avant-garde theatrical production in a nightclub. From there he left his dreams of being a musician behind and began his acting journey.

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OPPENHEIMER now in theatres

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Cillian Murphy’s tour de force performance in OPPENHEIMER is now in theatres globally. With a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film is poised to become the biggest movie of 2023. Playing Oppenheimer from his early 20s to late 50s, the 47-year-old Murphy gives the performance of his life, imbuing Oppenheimer’s body with an enthralling nervous eroticism and his voice with a musicality that reminds you of Humphrey Bogart.

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OPPENHEIMER featurette

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In the hands of filmmaker Christopher Nolan, the OPPENHEIMER story is the biggest release of the summer. A new featurette about the creation of the film introduces us to the myriad reasons why the filmmaker’s latest vision might be his most epic and complicated yet. The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist, and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. 

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