Cillian Murphy

Beautiful.

Btw, was the military guy in charge in 28 Days Later, in love with "Jim"/Cillian's character? He really seemed into him.

Beautiful..

He was MUTILATED. I thought the Irish had more sense than that. Maybe his parents were American lovers.

He's been in Peaky Blinders in Netflix (or Amazon) for several seasons now.

I thought he was great as a tranny in "Breakfast on Pluto", very fun

Love him. Couldn't make it through the 2nd season of 'Peaky Blinders,' though. Looking forward to 'Dunkirk.'

OP you are obsessed with him, but don't know he's has a series for a few seasons???

Dumb.

*has had

He was in some mariner role in some movie recently. He was all dirtied-up, which I thought was miscast, since he best shines in pretty roles.

He isn't pretty anymore. Just freaky.

I think of him as the poor man's Tom Welling. Tom got old looking, though. He's 39. Cillain is 40, so they're peers.

R10 I think he's more hauntingly beautiful, now. Really otherworldly, melancholy. Damon Albarn's his blonde twin.

Has he done a movie with Swinton? Together they would fry the programming in digital projectors.

Captivating. Also a great actor. I'd love to see him work with Danny Boyle again.

He's a DL fave and known as Miss Cillian Murphy.

So handsome...

Paparazzi shots of him with his wife and kids seem to indicate she's the dominant one. He has really geeky body language around her when they get papped.

I really liked his movie with Rachel MacAdams, Red Eye. They had nice chemistry.

Just saw him in Anthropoid. He was very good.

[quote] So handsome...

He's not handsome. He's beautiful. And he looks better than his lookalike Emily Blunt.

One of the most beautiful men ever.

I used to enjoy him, but he bores me over the past few years.

[quote]He was MUTILATED. I thought the Irish had more sense than that. Maybe his parents were American lovers.

Why do you say he is mutilated?

Drop dead gorgeous. Looks just like my ex. When I miss her I look at him and cry.

R24 = John Krasinski

Miss Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt

Nobody on here talking about Peaky Blinders? I just binge watched it. Great show. Murphy's excellent in it though Tom Hardy hams it up so much you want to belt him.

I watched the first season of Peaky Blinders, but I just couldn't get through the second. It became too corny and OTT (Tom Hardy might have had something to do with that, now that you mention him.) Has there been a third?

But I'm very much looking forward to 'Dunkirk' this summer. Looks stellar!

R28 They brought in a lot of new characters in the second season and it became harder to follow, very convoluted with the introduction of the horseracing, etc. Hardy was definitely a nuisance in this. He's terrible. There's a third season on Netflix.

Adore Peaky Blinders fantastic casting, cinematography and opening theme song by Nice Cave. Cillian is very sexy in this love his deep voice.

I adore Cillian. I think he's beautiful.

I think Tom Hardy is disgusting and dirty looking. (Sorry John/PMBT).

Free Fire was a blast, so to speak, though it's not for the politically correct.

I saw paparazzi pics of him with his wife and kids and his family looked so gross. Like none of them had showered for days and like their breath smelled like a sewer.

who R33 Murphy or Hardy?

Critics felt Armie Hammer walked away with Free Fire but I loved Cillian in it.

Cillian looks remarkably like an old boyfriend of mine. If looks were all, I would have stuck with him forever, but he had a lot of issues and the relationship just didn't work.

The 3rd season of Peaky Blinders was a bit weak, but overall it was good. Tom Hardy IS very hammy, but entertaining as hell. Cillian is good, but so are Helen McCrory, the actor that plays the older brother and the cousin (now on Animal Kingdom). Overall, he's a good actor, though I agree with the poster that said that his best roles are when he's shiny and pretty - he doesn't really seem to fit the rough mariner type he played in Heart of the Sea

Totally agree, R37.

I live not too far from him in Monkstown, County Dublin. He's very low-key and assuming, picks up his kids from the local primary (elementary) school. Up close (as on the screen) he is movie-star stunning. There is no real paparazzi culture here in Ireland so people mostly leave him alone. A neighbo(u)r of mine who has children was star-struck when her kids had a playdate at Murphy's house. Not much to report in the way of gossip, sorry.

r34 Murphy

Haven't seen Dunkirk yet, how much screen time does Cillian get? I doubt it's much since his character is listed as "Shivering Soldier."

I remember over a decade ago when it looked like his career was building up so much momentum with Batman Begins, Red Eye, 28 Days Later, Inception etc. then it fizzled out just as quickly. Which I'm sure he is fine with, since he's made it pretty clear that he's not into fame and stardom. Pretty disappointing for those that enjoy his work though, it just seems like a lot of wasted potential. At least he seems to be working steadily.

R41 He actually has decent amount of screen time, even though his character has no name. 'Dunkirk' is very much an ensemble film though, no one actor has that much screen time.

He has been very unlucky in his choices of projects. With the exception of the Nolan films that he's been part of, nothing seems to do well. He's like Casey Affleck in that way. He just needs the right role to show off his skills and he'll win all the awards.

Attractive in an unusual way. Sometimes he's classically handsome, sometimes not good-looking at all. Depends on how he's lit and photographed. I wonder how he looks in person?

Peaky Blinders is a terriffic show, R43

He is in a movie called The Party with DL faves Cherry Jones, Patricia Clarkson and Kristin Scott Thomas

19 year old Cillian with his original accent

I tried to watch Free Fire and turned it off after 25 minutes or so.

Thank you for the elaboration and correction on the canine. I was afraid I'd been given a mean spirited nickname.

I think that Cillian has cut back on his career to spend time with the wife and kids. Is he exclusively straight? I don't know, there have been rumors that he isn't.

I like him but he will never be a movie star. He seems better suited to minor parts or character roles on television

Funny that people are saying that Emily Blunt looks like she could be his sister, because she really does look like his real-life sister (on the far left)

I saw an interview with him on Colbert that was downright awkward. Yeah, Colbert's questions were bad (do you have Lucky Charms in Ireland?} but Murphy seemed very unwilling to play along a.t all. Maybe he's a talented guy that's unwilling or unable to do the kind of schmoozing you have to do to be an A-List type (see also Hardy, Tom, though he's not grumpy & rude like Tom)

I think he was just put off by Colbert's stereotyping, R53.

Maybe this is what he was thinking, R53: ‘It is getting absurd with the dumbing down'

I remember an interview that he did with an Israeli reporter. The reporter kept calling him British, even though he is Irish. He had to correct him multiple times. I think he doesn't have much patience for idiots.

He was fine in this interview with Craig Ferguson.

R13 I was thinking the same. He's a younger male Tilda.

R54 He didn't seem standoffish with Colbert to me. And actually just sitting on a talk show seat and not in extreme closeup he doesn't even look or act unusual. He seems like a decent guy.

He reminds me of a young male Meg Foster.

[quote] Yeah, Colbert's questions were bad

[quote]I think he was just put off by Colbert's stereotyping

Colbert is a comedian. He's supposed to ask silly questions. If it was a serious talk show and the host started asking things like, "So you eat lots of potatoes right?" or "What's the longest you ever went without a drink," Etc. etc. that would be different. The awkwardness stems from Cillian's deep dislike of fame and interviews, and just him having a stick up his ass in general (which is apparent in other interviews)

Why are so many of you calling him "a male" this or "a male" that? He is Miss Cillian Murphy.

R61 Colbert actually asked "“Do you guys get lucky charms in Ireland?”. Would Colbert have asked such stereotypical questions of any other ethnicity?

Plus, it's just lazy. I thought Colbert was supposed to be the "smart" one. That's how CBS promotes him.

R61 he's not standoffish with Craig Ferguson in the interview at R57.

But then Ferguson is talking to him normally and not like he's some magical leprechaun come to life.

R64 I must be missing something. He seems about the same, a little lower energy with Colbert, in both. He just comes off as serious minded, not really whimsical like Colbert seems to want him to be.

Would the assholes who use shit abbreviations such as "OTT" kindly go back to their lazy social media pens? The only abbreviation acceptable here is "DL," used with either of two meanings.

Invariably, these posters show themselves to be shallow fools with the rest of their posts. An example is the person who thought Season 2 of PEAKY BLINDERS was "OTT" because of Tom Hardy. If you're too stupid to understand the genre you're watching and then complain because it's not what it's not intended to be, you need to go back to sixth grade. If you're not still in it.

I DIDN"T LIKE THE WIZARD OF OZ BECAUSE IT WASN'T FAST AND FURIOUS. Fuck off.

Cillian isn't a "giver" in interviews that I've seen, whether it's press junkets, set interviews or chat shows he's not going to give funny anecdotes or play games. He's the type who would be very happy to just do the work and not have to promote it at all.

Murphy's great in Peaky Blinders. R66 I hated Tom Hardy in that - usually he's one of my favorite actors but that was scenery chewing pushed to the nth degree.

[quote] The only abbreviation acceptable here is "DL," used with either of two meanings.

DOOL

WHET

Do you have taquitos in Mexico?

He was good in Dunkirk but his pretty boy days are clearly over.

I can't help of thinking about another set of famous blue Irish eyes.

I used to wank to him.

[quote] I used to wank to him.

Why did you stop?

Maybe it's just aging, but his face looks "off". Has he gained weight? I loved him in Batman Begins as the creepy psychiatrist. He looked perfect.

R75 just normal aging perhaps? Pretty boys tend to age strangely, ala Leo.

That horrible haircut he has for Peaky Blinders doesn't help but the Irish age badly.

Beauty

OP I think he is beautiful. He has an ethereal beauty. You are not alone.

Creepy!

He looked so good in that movie that he did with Rachel MacAdams, Red Eye. He was a great, sexy villain.

R75, he has just aged.

He used to have a feminine type of beauty, but now he just looks like your typical older male.

"Your typical older male" ?!

Please tell us where you live, R82, so that we can all relocate.

Creepy beautiful.

Has he ever had relations with Jonathan Rhys-Meyers? They are said to be close friends but I always imagined there was something more to their relationship

Of course, said relationship may have broken down in recent years.

Cillian and Mrs. Murphy are raising their children. In show business, that doesn't prove anything.

Well, he hardly moved back to Dublin for the gay scene, dearies.

Per my source, he's pretty low-key, and makes perfectly attractive men look like bridge trolls in comparison.

Would lick every inch of his lovely lean body and suck him dry.

I've had a thing for him since his nude debut.

It's just refreshing to see a lead actor with real chops and a unique beauty get his dues. That's not the norm, now.

Saw him in The Party - weird film. Nothing overtly wrong with it - just odd. He played a coke-head.

I'm so superficial. I love Peaky Blinders but I wish they weren't so historically accurate when it comes to those ugly haircuts.

I was into him until i found out he was an athiest. Not judging him (or anyone else) but it made me less hot for him.

[quote] I was into him until i found out he was an athiest. Not judging him (or anyone else) but it made me less hot for him.

Knowing that just made me like him even more.

R93 How did you find that out??

Wikipedia R95 i understand R94 but its such a turn off for me.

Why is it a turn off, R96/R93?

[quote]I was into him until i found out he was an athiest.

It's ATHEIST. Yours is one of the most annoying spelling errors ever, and this is not the first time I've seen it here on DL. If you said "I'm an athiest" out loud, you'd sound like a 5-year-old who's losing her baby teeth.

He was my #1 choice to play the main character in the gay movie The Dreyfus Affair, had it been made.

He was the only compelling queer element of Nolan’s boring, chilly, heterosexualist Batman trilogy.

R85, Murphy and JRM were never close friends--just friendly. There are photos of them at a couple of events many years ago, but they have never worked together and aren't close. I suppose there is a kinship as both are actors from Cork and are close in age (something in the Cork water producing femme beautiful petite actors with gorgeous blue eyes and impossible cheekbones!). They are both connected to Colin Farrell--I'm not sure if they are still close, but Murphy and Farrell met early in their careers and were/are good friends. JRM has worked with Farrell a couple of times too. JRM has said good things about Farrell and Murphy, both as actors and people. But he's also said he's not really truly friends with fellow actors--that there's a close but slighly faux atmosphere on set but once it's done, people move on.

From what JRM has said, it sounds like he and Farrell, if they run into each other, can pal around and shoot the breeze, but otherwise they don't run in the same social circles. Farrell did go to JRM's mother's funeral though. I wonder if part of it is because (supposedly) Farrell really did clean up and go it together whereas JRM continues to struggle with sobriety. They both partied really hard on Alexander and both went through rehab afterwards. It seemed Farrell took it seriously and went through a longterm program whereas JRM has flitted in and out of rehab for over the years.

I thought Murphy was hot in 28 Days with the ultra-skinny look but was completely disappointed when I saw what he looked like at his normal weight. I'm not quite sure what it is as I'm totally gaga for JRM, but Murphy just doesn't do it for me. Even though he's a far better actor than JRM to boot. I think Murphy as aged well for a pasty pretty Irish guy though.

Nice eyes, cheeckbones and lips. Been with his wife for years.

Cillian looks yummy in Peaky blinders

Emily Blunt is homely, can we at least be honest about that? If there is a plain girl role, she should have it. Cillian reminds me of a girl, how much work has he really had done? Some people are actually born with pleasant features.

Reminds me I'm so disappointed I'm going to have to wait 2 years for the next series of Peaky Blinders.

I know but there's talk of a movie. Still don't understand way the Cole brother were written out.

Way

[quote]Still don't understand way the Cole brother were written out.

I think maybe it was to raise the stakes or maybe Joe asked to be written out. He's steadily been doing films. I was surprised it was him to go because the other Cole brother is on USA's Animal Kingdom.

[quote]how much work has he really had done?

I think he's had none done. There's been some close up photos of him where you can see the aging.

Didn't like him until "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" and then I became a fan.

Random thread but had no idea he was cut. Hmm, he does have striking blue eyes and he is a good actor. Also a private person which is why he chose to live in Ireland away from it all. He is aging which you can easily tell because he's quite frail and thin, as he's always been.

R93 here. I'm a Christian (I know- so bring on the jokes) so someone being a complete atheist is just a big boner killer for me. Not that in my fantasies we would have bible-study but still. Its just a thing for me.

Those eyes and pillow lips

Next to the late singer Prince he’s the gayest straight man of our times.

He’s just beautiful in a very feminine way, R113. That in no way signifies homosexuality, only the power to make ‘straight men’ who enjoy feminine sexual partners very nervous & confused.

We’ll keep a space for Cillian here, anyway.

I’ve known several arrow-straight men who’ve confessed attraction to Kitty in BREAKFAST ON PLUTO.

Hetero men really are so very superficial and easy to beguile, aren’t they?

Terrific job in "Dunkirk" and part of a wonderfully wild cast in "The Party"

R115 Any "heterosexual" man who is attracted to a man dressed in drag is a latent homosexual. He looks like a mtf trani in that gif. There is nothing actually feminine about his face, only gay men seem to think this but that's because they are already attracted to masculine faces so you can put lipstick on arnold swachnegger and they would call him feminine. He looks about as feminine as patrick swayze in to wong foo. He has certain androgynous features but overall a masculine face, especially the lower half of his face. He has a very strong jaw and large gap between nose and upper lip which is a masculine trait. No one would ever mistake him for a real woman, not even with makeup and a wig.

I like him.

He's in Sunshine. That is a good movie.

he's ok in The Edge of Love, too

Do we have any gossip about him? Is he bi?

Creepy looking. oh lord...is he bi....bitches, please.

Wife is ugly as fuck

It’s so funny how the general public grappled with his name pronunciation for years, until he hit it big appearing in the Dark Knight Trilogy and it was repeated the one way constantly in the press.

We were always getting in wrong in the ‘90s, saying “Silly-an” and not “Killyun”.

R121, agree

And not a good artist, too.

[quote]I think Tom Hardy is disgusting and dirty looking.

Typed like a true frau. The dirtier the better!!!

[quote]those ugly haircuts.

You mean those hot haircuts?!

Don’t go to Berlin. You’ll just die.

His name is not pronounced "Killyun". It's prounced as it's spelled, with a hard C.

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I think he’s so beautiful and angelic. His beauty is mysterious and frightening in a sense, somewhat like elves in the Lord of the Rings.

First saw him in Intermission. He was brilliant. A work of art.

A beautiful doll in Inception.

I also recommend How Harry Became a Tree, where he plays a virgin.

He looks like Eric Roberts sometimes.

Breakfast on Pluto is a fantastic film and he is outstanding as "Kitten". I saw him on the street in Dublin once. Beautiful eyes for sure!

Kitten's fragrance from Roche's Stores was the deadliest weapon

Disco Pigs: The Monologue.

Disco pigs, how Harry became a tree, intermission, the wind that shakes the barley. I have followed his career for years. Beautiful man, great actor.

The prettier the man, the uglier the fraus. This one has been stalking him for years.

R130, a mixture of Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Connelly?

Has anyone seen Aloft? The story is sick, but for the three hot scenes excluded from the DVD version (sorry, that's the best I managed to find)

Uggggly.

Cillan has so many love scenes and not afraid to so his stuff. There are some sex scenes in peaky Blinders and the delinquent season .

She's still one of the most beautiful actresses today,