Cillian Murphy praises teachers as ‘custodians of next generation’ at Steve premiere

Cillian Murphy Praises Teachers As ‘Custodians Of Next Generation’ At Red Carpet PremiereSource: The Independent

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00:00When you were training Steve, did you have a particular teacher in mind that you've got the base of your portrayal of?

00:06Well, my parents are both retired teachers and my grandfather is a headmaster, so I grew up in that world.

00:13Yeah.

00:14So it was very much part of who I was as a young nurse.

00:18Do you ever want to be a teacher?

00:20No.

00:21No.

00:22It's too much.

00:23I mean, but they actually hold together our society, you know what I mean?

00:27And, like, we give them our kids and they're custodians of the next generation.

00:34It's a massive undertaking if you think about it.

00:37It's a big thing, you know, you send them off, you don't see them for eight hours a day.

00:41You want them to be in good hands.

00:43That's it.

00:44Yeah, that's the whole...

00:45Did you have a teacher that really inspired you?

00:48Obviously you've got your parents, but there was...

00:50I had a great English teacher called Billy Wall, who really opened up the whole literature and poetry and theatre.

00:56I think it was just

01:09simple.

01:10Absolutely.

01:11Is it reallyinci and the whole thing very step?

01:18That's how beautiful it looks.

01:20You got a part of the groundbreaking.