Cillian Murphy dishes on the ‘most interesting part of filmmaking’

Cillian Murphy has opened up about the “most interesting part of filmmaking.”

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the Peaky Blinders alum candidly discussed the challenges that he faces while portraying a “really quiet, sort of hard-to-reach” role.

“I’m one of those actors that always tries to cut my own lines,” the Oscar winner began by saying. “I really feel that the medium we’re working with is the one that should see into your soul and see your intentions, and see the pain.”

At the time, he revealed his favorite part to play in any movie and continued, “The parts of films that I love is what characters are just thinking or in repose or on their own or silent or working s*** out. That, to me, is the best, most interesting part of filmmaking.”

Moreover, Murphy noted his role as a charcoal merchant Bill Furlong, in the movie Small Things Like These and said, “And with Bill, we have to sort of play a lot of the interiority of his life.” 

“We had to play that on his face, but [screenwriter Enda Walsh] is a genius at writing scenes where people talk, but they’re not talking about what they’re feeling, so it’s all subtextual.”

Before concluding, the Oppenheimer actor praised the director Tim Mielants of the movie by saying, “I just love that. And Tim, our director, is just so gifted mining for those performances.”