For nearly 30 years, Cillian Murphy has built an unimpeachable body of work—while somehow also staying cleverly out of sight. Now, as an Oscar front-runner, the Oppenheimer star pulls back the curtain.
“I’ve never had that experience of growing older with a character or being able to inhabit it to a point where the character starts thinking for you in the performance.”
At home in Dublin, on the eve of the ‘dark as fuck’ final series of Peaky Blinders, Murphy reflects on his years as one of TV’s greatest-ever gangsters and the tragic loss of his co-star, the ‘magnificent’ Helen McCrory.