'Steve' Star Cillian Murphy Talks Acting Without The Accent And Life After His Oscar Win

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00:00I know you also come from a family of teachers I wonder did that play into your decision to

00:04take on the story as a producer and as an actor at all and did it help with the connection to

00:09the character well you'll know if you're the same as me like you kind of live that life vicariously

00:16through your parents and um I don't think I I fully appreciated it when I was young how hard

00:22it was and like both of them working and both of them coming home to us dealing with their own kids

00:28after standing up in front of like you know 35 other kids and then just doing the day after day

00:34today um but it wasn't the motivating reason to make the film you know it's because I have a

00:43relationship with Max Porter and we wanted to continue working together and then the idea was

00:49to spin the axis of the storytelling to to bring it to Steve and Shy I was blown away by your

00:57performance in this movie and all the scenes but especially the scene where Steve goes to the

01:01basement and like it's shouting and we finally see that that mask slip

01:05can you tell me a little bit about filming that scene the lead up to it different takes working

01:22with Tim your director yeah that's interesting you picked that scene because we shot the film

01:28chronologically and I had a big effect on everybody because we were all living it as we went you know

01:34and um and accumulating that kind of emotional uh information as we went along um I kind of knew that

01:43was happening and again that was in a continuous take because he came from the scene when he's with

01:47Jenny and he follows him all the way down into the basement it's one it's a one-er and we I don't we

01:53didn't really know what was going to happen nobody really knew and and I think I think I've said this

01:58before but I don't think I would have been able to do that in that way if I wasn't working with people

02:04that I really trusted and knew I mean Alan Maloney my producer partner we've worked with 25 years

02:09together like Tim we made this our third project Max a third project and you know Emily made two films

02:17with so like uh it felt very secure and secure enough of a place to be that vulnerable another

02:26thing that really got me is when Tracy Ullman is telling your character that it's not your fault um

02:30and I was wondering is this an intentional goodwill hunting reference but kind of having the teacher

02:34needing to hear that instead of the the students no it's not intentional but that's I love that film

02:40and I think you know this is a genre of movie I think we have to accept that and but I love that

02:49it flips it so it's the teacher that yeah that needs to hear the that message there's a reason why

02:55Steve can't ultimately reach shy in the moment that he needs to reach it was because he can't fix himself

03:02and it it's it's it's it's it's um Amanda Tracy's character that can see that American audiences like

03:09me are so used to hearing you do an American accent in your movies there's something up with you and

03:15all I want I only all I want for you to do is to just use us you know use the people here that care

03:20for you speak to us just me or Amanda or even the lads whoever what was it like to play a role with with

03:29no accident was that freeing was it a relief or did it feel like more vulnerable kind of all of the

03:33love yeah we we like in the character he would be sorry in the novel he would be English um but we

03:41just made him like he'd come over from Ireland and uh it's just one less thing to worry about

03:46but it's also I guess if you want to look into it it's just peeling away the layers you know what I

03:51mean do you feel like maybe less distance from the character because you don't go into a different

03:55voice yeah I mean I just like like didn't really change physically didn't change the voice just try to

03:59make make him as exhausted and hangered as possible and like um so yeah there's something

04:06when I was a young actor that would have terrified me because it's all about you put on the you know

04:12you have these layers and layers of character that you build up whereas that we wanted to get rid of all

04:16that watch Steve basically come apart as the day goes on as you said it was shot sequentially by the

04:21end of the day he's like jittery manic um I wonder how did that affect you emotionally and physically

04:26to go through that journey sort of on the same timeline as him it's not great but uh it's also

04:37the best way to do it is sequentially um and the best way to do it is just to go into it and just

04:43sort of immerse yourself in it I I it's the way I do it anyway I kind of have to live it

04:49congratulations on your well-deserved oscar for oppenheimer um wondering how has your

04:53professional life changed since becoming an oscar winner do you feel like you have more power more

04:58options more freedom professionally uh I mean I don't know like I I think your your tastes and

05:05whatever your choices are pretty refined because like I've been doing it 30 years nearly and so

05:09that's not going to change but if it helps get you know a film over the line financially or in terms of

05:15funding then I'll take it yeah

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