“It broke my heart”: Cillian Murphy is Haunted by a Major Christopher Nolan Regret
Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor who has partnered with Christopher Nolan on multiple outstanding projects. He rose to meteoric fame with the role of Thomas Shelby on the BBC period drama series Peaky Blinders.
A trusted soldier for Nolan, the collaboration began with his role as Scarecrow in The Dark Knight trilogy, which blew everyone away. He also appeared in Inception and Dunkirk for a small period of time on-screen and managed to make a mark.
Recently, Cillian Murphy starred in what is being dubbed Christopher Nolan’s best movie of all time, Oppenheimer. It is also leading up to a possible Oscar nomination for Best Actor for Cillian Murphy. Even amidst all the success, Murphy is haunted by the regret of not being able to star in another Nolan movie, which was seen as his magnum opus prior to Oppenheimer.
Cillian Murphy has not recovered from not being able to star in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar
Cillian Murphy has tons of respect and adoration for Christopher Nolan’s work. Aside from frequently appearing in his projects, he has opened up about his views about the director in the past, calling him “a bit of a genius” in an interview with BBC 1.
In the interview with Josh Horowitz, he could not stop gushing about the director and said:
“The first time I met him, I was immediately struck by his brain. He is phenomenal.”
In a recent interview with The Independent, Murphy was asked if there were any Nolan movies he would have loved to feature in apart from the ones he has already done. It did not take him long to open up about one of his greatest regrets in his career, which is not being able to star in Nolan’s epic space adventure drama Interstellar.
“I adore Interstellar just because I find it so emotional. I remember seeing it in the cinema when I had little kids. It just had a big impact on me. It broke my heart. I love watching his films when I’m not in them because you don’t have to freak out about the size of your ears, or whatever.”
It was evident from the interview that he is also obsessed with cinema. When Murphy was asked which one of Nolan’s movies would be a great double feature with Oppenheimer, he cried out the name of Interstellar again.
“You could go Interstellar, which is very… explores similar scientific, physics themes. Or you could watch Dunkirk, which is also set in World War II. Dunkirk is shorter, so that might be a good match ‘cause it’s like an hour-and-a-half, and then you can go into [‘Oppenheimer’].”
Starring industry veterans like Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Caine, and Matt Damon, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is an epic science fiction film that has been touted by the audience as well as the scientific community for its accuracy and portrayal of theoretical physics. It managed to snag five awards at the 87th Academy Awards, winning Best Visual Effects and many other accolades. Interstellar was the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2014, making around $703 million in total after subsequent re-releases.
Christopher Nolan hails Zack Snyder’s influence in every superhero movie coming out these days
Zack Snyder is currently enjoying massive attention for his space opera, Rebel Moon, despite a mixed bag of reviews. In a profile piece done by The Atlantic on the eminent director, Christopher Nolan was asked a few questions about fellow director Zack Snyder. According to Nolan, Snyder’s influence is so far-reaching that it can be felt in the entire genre, in recent times.
“There’s no superhero science-fiction film coming out these days where I don’t see some influence of Zack. When you watch a Zack Snyder film, you see and feel his love for the potential of cinema. The potential of it to be fantastical, to be heightened in its reality, but to move you and to excite you.”
He has also previously given his nod of approval for Snyder’s Watchmen, which he found to be ahead of its time. In an interview with IndieWire, Nolan said:
“Always believed ‘Watchmen’ was ahead of its time. The idea of a superhero team, which it so brilliantly subverts, wasn’t yet a thing in movies. It would have been fascinating to see it released post-Avengers.”
Christopher Nolan served as a producer for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, which was conceptualized by Nolan and his Dark Knight trilogy co-writer David S. Goyer. Nolan and Zack Snyder have shared mutual adoration and friendship ever since.
Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire is now out on Netflix. Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver will be available to watch on the same platform on April 19.
