Cillian Murphy on Working With 'Steve' Director & Cast Recall Their School Experience | TIFF 2025 - video Dailymotion

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'Steve' writer Max Porter, director Tim Mielants and stars Cillian Murphy, Jay Lycurgo, Tracey Ullman and Little Simz stop by THR's TIFF suite at the 1 Hotel in Toronto. Murphy and Mielants talk about how they knew they enjoyed working together, while the cast reveal what it was like in between takes on set. Plus, everyone recalls their school experience.

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00:00Then he went and made this film called Patrick, which is one of my favorite films, and it kind of blew my mind.

00:06I thought it was the end of my career.

00:09It's about a guy looking for his hammer in a nudist camp.

00:12It's so great.

00:12He says that quite fast and in his accent.

00:16It's about a guy looking for his hammer in a nudist camp.

00:20It's all completely naked.

00:22It's brilliant.

00:22And I like the one concession for the older woman with pearls.

00:26That was it.

00:30Tim and Killian, how did you guys know that you liked working together?

00:37I kind of like it that it's unspoken.

00:39I don't want to analyze it.

00:41I think then the mystery is gone.

00:45Boring.

00:48I think we made season three of Peaky Blinders together, and it was a very hard, very intense shoot.

00:56But I remember thinking, there's a lot more to this director than you can see.

01:03Because it was an amazing series.

01:06I had a sense that Tim and Max would really connect together.

01:10I felt they would work really, really well together.

01:13And Tim has this amazing ability with actors.

01:16It's unlike any director I've come across.

01:18And actors just really go deep for him, and it's very freeing.

01:22And it needed that sort of touch for this film.

01:25What did it feel like on set?

01:26And what did you guys do in between takes or at the end of the day to kind of shake it off?

01:31He didn't shake it off.

01:33No, he didn't shake it off.

01:34It was, I find on like, well certainly on our sets there's a lot of laughing and messing around.

01:40Because you have to, because the material sometimes is quite heavy.

01:45So I feel like we were chugging around and all that.

01:47But the beauty was we shot in order.

01:50So it meant that we were accumulating the experiences as we went along with the characters.

01:56That really helped.

01:57But it was like a lot of fun, but deadly serious.

02:00The young boys were wonderful.

02:03I mean, the actors and the boys that had never acted before.

02:06And I was terrified of them the first three days.

02:09And then I just loved them by the end.

02:10And I just, I love boys.

02:12And I love, you know, my characters love of them.

02:14And so it was great fun.

02:15Tons of a noisy, noisy energy.

02:17They were amazing.

02:18Imagine if they were here now.

02:20They all came charging in now.

02:21They got coming to ghost jackets.

02:24What was everyone's school experience like?

02:28I did all right.

02:29I was an average student.

02:31I never passed maths.

02:32But I found out I was dyslexic when I was 19.

02:36So I felt like I never really had teachers in my school that kind of was patient with me.

02:41I had a good time other than not being in the classroom.

02:45I'm still 14 in my head, you know.

02:47So I'm still 14.

02:49But no, I had such a laugh at school.

02:51I was really a nightmare, I guess.

02:53But I had some very significant teachers that are why I'm here today doing what I do.

02:59Who spotted what I could do well.

03:02And I owe a lot to Mr. Ronald Harding.

03:05I do.

03:06Let's name them.

03:07Yeah, I was going to say that.

03:08Mary Brooke.

03:09Yeah.

03:10Mr. Walsh, actually.

03:11Yeah, Mr. Walsh.

03:12He taught me to go to drama school.

03:14Who for you?

03:14Miss Welton, my English teacher.

03:17Yeah, Bill Wall, my English teacher.

03:18Ah-ha.

03:19Mr. Govart.

03:21I'm not crazy.

03:21Dutch teacher.

03:22Yeah.

03:22Isn't that crazy how you can name him?

03:24Wow.

03:24Is that not...

03:25Are we in the wrong profession?

03:26Should we all be teachers?

03:26No.

03:27That sounds so beautiful.

03:28Maybe 10% of us.

03:31Make the switch.

03:32Yeah.

03:33But one of the things about school is, like, I remember having a revelation that was,

03:37or at least I'm projecting back onto myself that I had this revelation.

03:40But I remember thinking, this is warm.

03:43I'm being helped.

03:44There's even people here that have faith in me.

03:46That are telling me I'd be good at something that I don't believe I'm good at.

03:49So they're actually unfurling me as a human being.

03:51And it's free.

03:52That was, you know, I remember thinking that at, like, 14.

03:55Thinking, wow.

03:57You know.

03:57Which is why private education should be abolished.

03:59That's a separate thing.

04:00Oh, here we go.

04:01We'll do that.

04:02We'll get a longer one.

04:03We'll get a longer one.

Cillian Murphy on Working With 'Steve' Director & Cast Recall Their School Experience | TIFF 2025

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