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Главная » Статьи » Англоязычные (с переводом и без) » 2006

Scrummy Murphy
Автор: Helen Barlow

(This syndicated article previously appeared in the Courier Mail, 25 August, 2006.)

With blue translucent eyes that dazzle the camera like few others, Cillian Murphy can portray a brooding sensitivity yet be romantic, loveable and downright horrible. He's the hottest acting talent to come out of Ireland since Colin Farrell and he has a lot more range.

The 30-year-old actor, who made his mark as the Scarecrow in Batman Begins and as the passenger from hell in Red Eye, plays a transvestite in Crying Game director Neil Jordan's recently released Breakfast on Pluto. He also stars in Ken Loach's coming Cannes winner, The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

Loach normally avoids working with stars, yet he cast Murphy because he comes from Cork. Murphy returns to his roots to play Damien, a medical student who becomes an IRA volunteer during the Irish war of independence.

"The fallout from the war of independence and the civil war still resonates today and you realise what side your family was on," Murphy says.

"When my grandfather was playing music with a lot of his buddies underneath a tree and then the Black and Tans [British troops] came along and shot at them randomly, the bullet went into the tree. If he'd been a better marksman I might have not been here. I had a cousin who was killed. Cork was the most militarised area of the country and the rebellion was strongest there."

Breakfast on Pluto is also set against Ireland's "Troubles" but in the 1970s. Murphy wears outrageous women's clothes to play Patrick "Kitten" Brady (sic), the bastard son of a priest (Liam Neeson). Rather than resort to violence, the troubled youth disappears behind a veil of femininity.

"All [Kitten] wants is to be loved and to look pretty, and those needs are quite simple," Murphy says.

Did he try on his wife's underwear to get into the character?

"No," he says. "You couldn't model it on your wife; that would be weird. I preferred to look at other women, just women in the Tube around London.

"I also hung out with transvestites and I met with one guy for a number of weeks. We went to clubs and he introduced me to his friends. I think it's important to do that, no matter how little you use it. It's important out of respect to that community because you're a representative in a certain way and you need to experience how they live."

The film has been likened to Transamerica in its more humane twist on gender-bending, but Murphy says it all comes down to the story.

"A lot of the recent gay-themed movies, like Capote and Brokeback Mountain, were inspired by novels and I think that says a lot," he says. "It's very healthy that in America these themes are being embraced."

During our interview, Murphy squeaks a rubber duck given to him as a present for his baby son. He is hung over, having brought over a gaggle of his mates from Dublin to the Berlin Film Festival. They had rung up quite a bill at his swanky hotel—to the dismay of the Hollywood honchos, who are trying to get him to talk to the press.

Murphy's next big movie is the sci-fi epic Sunshine, in which he is sent to reignite the dying sun. He co-stars with Australia's Rose Byrne. Is there any hanky-panky going on?

"I'm not gonna tell you, but she's brilliant, though. I love Rose. She's a fantastic actress."
 
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