The forthcoming PEAKY BLINDERS movie, being filmed in the West Midlands, is due to start shooting in September. The show’s creator, Steven Knight, has confirmed that Cillian Murphy will reprise his role as Thomas Shelby. It is being shot in Digbeth, amid plans to grow the film industry in the city with 760 new jobs. He also praised Murphy’s performance in OPPENHEIMER, saying that the Best Actor Academy Award he won earlier this month “was so deserved.”
Cork native Cillian Murphy made history on Sunday night becoming the first Irish-born actor to claim BEST ACTOR at the Oscars for his career-defining role in OPPENHEIMER. As predicted, the film dominated proceedings, winning best picture, best director for Christopher Nolan, and best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr. Murphy is the third Irish actor to win the best actor Oscar, following Daniel Day-Lewis, who was born in London but holds Irish citizenship, and Barry Fitzgerald who won in 1945. Murphy thanked Nolan and Emma Thomas, his producer, as well as his team and his family. He ended his speech by saying he was a “very very proud Irishman”.
Cillian Murphy has been named best actor at the 30th Screen Actors Guild awards in Los Angeles for his lead performance in Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER. Murphy spoke with dignity as he received the “Actor” statuette. “This is extremely special because it comes from you guys,” he said to his fellow performers. “Twenty-eight years ago I was trying to become an actor. I was a failed musician and I felt like an interloper. But now, looking out and all of you guys here today, I know that I’m part of something truly wonderful.”.
During the Berlin Film Festival press conference for his newest movie SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE, Cillian Murphy reflected on the “collective trauma” of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. Based on the book of the same name by Claire Keegan, the film focuses on the horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform ‘fallen young women. The story is told through the eyes of Murphy’s devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong, who during Christmas 1985 discovers some “startling secrets” kept by his local convent.
In the latest Cillian Murphy GQ interview, the Cork native talks about his unimpeachable body of work as one of our most versatile actors, while somehow also staying cleverly out of sight. Now, as an Oscar front-runner, the OPPENHEIMER star pulls back the curtain on how director Christopher Nolan chose him for the role of his career. The result was one of the most watched and most acclaimed films of 2023—a nearly billion-dollar blockbuster about a tormented genius (and, yes, the father of the atomic bomb).
A long-awaited sequel to the zombie flick 28 DAYS LATER has officially been greenlit at Sony – with OPPENHEIMER lead Cillian Murphy to executive produce and possibly star. Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland have returned, with Boyle directing Part One and Garland penning the script. The original film follows a bicycle courier (Murphy) who wakes up from a coma only to find that a virus (dubbed the ‘rage virus’) has all but destroyed society.
Co-stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr discuss the Making of OPPENHEIMER, their global smash hit. What is it really like on a Christopher Nolan set? Did Cillian really say yes before reading the script? From pre-production to the release of the film, the cast talk about their favorite on-screen moments and their relationship with director Christopher Nolan.
The SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE World Premiere will take place at the 74th Berlinale, unspooling in the German capital from 15-25 February. The title, taking part in the festival’s main competition, stars Cillian Murphy, Ciaran Hinds, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson in the leading roles. The Irish-Belgian co-production was penned by Enda Walsh and is based on the book of the same name by Claire Keegan (the writer of FOSTER, adapted into the Academy Award-nominated feature THE QUIET GIRL .