Cillian Murphy reveals the film from his back catalogue he ‘doesn’t think is good’

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Cillian Murphy has mirrored on his appearing profession, revealing which of his previous motion pictures he’s not so keen on.

The Oppenheimer actor, 47, has starred in quite a few blockbuster motion pictures, together with Inception, A Quiet Place Part II and Dunkirk.

In a brand new interview with GQ, Murphy was requested about one in every of his lesser-seen roles, 2005’s Red Eye, by which he performed charismatic murderer Jackson Rippner reverse Rachel McAdams.

“I love Rachel McAdams and we had fun making it,” he mentioned. “But I don’t think it’s a good movie. It’s a good B movie.”

Explaining why he selected to hitch the venture, the Irishman mentioned: “I think it’s the duality of it. It’s why I wanted to play it. That two thing. The nice guy and the bad guy in one.

“The only reason it appealed to me is you could do that. That turn, you know?”

Director Wes Craven’s film noticed Murphy’s Jackson kidnap the father (Brian Cox) of a lodge supervisor (McAdams) as a way to get the latter to help him in his mission to assassinate the head of Homeland Security.

Also talking to GQ about filming Red Eye, McAdams fondly recalled working alongside Murphy.

“They say the nicest people sometimes make the best villains,” she mentioned. “We’d listen to music and gab away while doing the crossword puzzle, which he brought every day and would graciously let me chime in on… I think the number one question I got about Cillian way back then was whether or not he wore contact lenses.”

Murphy has beforehand shared his opinion of the film, calling it “schlocky” in a 2021 interview with Uproxx.

“When I was a younger actor, I was really, really hard on everything that I was in. I hated watching myself. I hated looking at myself on screen. I remember when I saw it was like, ‘Oh, that’s kind of a schlocky B movie.’ Rachel McAdams is excellent in it,” he mentioned at the time.

“But I didn’t think I gave a very nuanced performance in it. But, listen, if people love the movie then that’s great. I’m pleased with that. I’m less hard on myself now when I look at stuff. I’m less hypercritical of my work. But that’s probably a hangover from that to be honest.”

Murphy’s newest function as physicist J Robert Oppenheimer – who led the growth of the world’s first nuclear bomb – in Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-nominated Oppenheimer has earnt him a Best Actor nomination at the 2024 Academy Awards.