“Genuinely, honestly, no" Cillian Murphy has admitted that winning an Oscar hasn’t really changed things for him. The actor won the Best Actor Academy Award earlier this year for his performance in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer , which took home seven gongs in total including Best Picture. Speaking in a new interview with The Sunday Times to promote his new film Small Things Like These , Murphy was asked whether things have changed since winning the prestigious award.
“Genuinely, honestly, no,” he admitted, though expressed hope that it helps to get more projects under his production company Big Things Films made. “But if it helps in any way [to produce more Big Things Films work], that’s great. If it can help getting the stories told, brilliant,” Murphy added.
As well as Small Things Like These , Murphy is keeping busy with a return to Peaky Blinders in the upcoming Netflix film The Immortal Man . The movie, which is being directed by Tom Harper and has begun filming , will be set during World War II and has been described as an “epic continuation of the multi-award-winning gangster saga”. As well as the return of Murphy as Tommy Shelby and Steven Graham as Hayden Stagg, new cast additions include Rebecca Ferguson , Barry Keoghan , Tim Roth , Sophie Rundle, Ned Dennehy, Packy Lee, Ian Peck and Jay Lycurgo.
Murphy previously told Deadline of the project: “It seems like Tommy Shelby wasn’t finished with me. ..
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