Cillian Murphy refuses to take photos with fans.
Cillian Murphy refuses to take photos with fans.
The 47-year-old actor has become known around the world for his role as gangster Thomas Shelby in the acclaimed series 'Peaky Blinders' and has been nominated for an Oscar for his recent star turn in 'Oppenheimer' but admitted that he prefers to have a conversation with a fan if they bump into him on the street rather than pose for a selfie.
He told GQ: "Once I started doing that, 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.”
Cillian also explained to the outlet that he prefers to work on just one film a year because a lot of his friends are not in the business and he "loves" not having to work but also counts living his everyday life as "research" for himself as an actor and whatever his next role might be.
He said: "I have a couple of friends who are actors but a majority of them are not. The majority of my buddies are not in the business. I also love not working.
"And I think for me a lot of research as an actor is just living, and, you know, having a normal life doing regular things and just being able to observe, and be, in that sort of lovely flow of humanity.
"If you can’t do that because you’re going from film festival to movie set to promotions…I mean that’s The Bubble.
"I’m not saying that makes you any better or less as an actor, but it’s just a world that I couldn’t exist in. I find it would be very limiting on what you can experience as a human being, you know?"
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
Comedies don't get much darker than this pitch-black British movie, written and directed by Sally...
Britain's epic 1940 evacuation of Dunkirk has been dramatised on film before, but no one...
It's 1940 and World War II is in full swing. Allied soldiers from Britain, Belgium,...
In one of the biggest military disasters in British history, 400,000 soldiers found themselves stranded...
Basically a 90-minute shoot-out, there isn't a lot to this movie. British filmmaker Ben Wheatley...
It's 1978 Boston and an unlikely gang made up of Justine (Brie Larson), Stevo (Sam...
Outside the Czech Republic, few people know about Operation Anthropoid, a spy mission in 1943...
Reinhard Heydrich was one of the fiercest anti-Semitic officers in the Nazi army. He authored...
Expectations are a problem with this year's Secret Cinema event. After the jaw-dropping, goosebump-inducing surprises...
With a huge budget and a relatively small story, this is an intriguingly offbeat blockbuster...
In The Heart Of The Sea is the true seaman's tale based on the last...
In August of 1819, The Essex set sail from New England. The whaling ship set...
Far too slow-paced to work as a thriller and too shallow to properly challenge us...