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CILLIAN MURPHY SAYS he’s trying to enjoy the build-up to the Oscars, where he’s tipped to pick up yet another best actor award this Sunday.
“What will be will be,” he told RTÉ Radio this morning.
But he also found time to pop into another Oscar celebration last night, the Oscar Wilde Awards in California, which celebrates Irish entertainment contributions in the US.
Hosted at J.J. Abrams and Katie McGrath’s Bad Robot production company in Santa Monica, the awards honoured actor Pierce Brosnan, animator and visual effects coordinator Richie Baneham and actor Molly Shannon.
The awards ceremony has been running for 18 years since it was created by US-Ireland Alliance founder Trina Vargo and bills itself as a more casual event during the busy, glamorous awards show season.
On receiving his honours, Pierce Brosnan – described as “a true joy and a shining light wherever he goes” – spoke about the importance of Ireland in his life and career.
Molly Shannon spoke of her excitement about receiving her award and said she’s been learning a lot about her Irish ancestry. She spoke of the influences of her Irish Catholic upbringing, her childhood crush on her Irish priest, and how her first grade, Irish American dance teachers inspired her SNL character Sally O’Malley.
Multi-Oscar-winning director James Cameron presented Richie Baneham with his award. The two worked together on the Avatar film series which won Baneham two Best Visual Effects Oscars of his own last year and in 2010.
Baneham spoke of his years training in animation in Ireland, working with Cameron, and his life in LA where he has many friends and colleagues from Dublin.
On the radio this morning, Cillian Murphy was asked if he thought the Irish film industry was “having a moment”.
“I think so,” he said. “It seems to be for sure,” adding praise for “brilliant performances by Barry Keoghan, Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal. There’s a good gang of us, and of course there’s Saoirse (Ronan) and Jessie Buckley. There seems to be a good crop around at the moment.”
He also mentioned the success of Irish production Poor Things, which has picking up awards this season alongside Murphy’s Oppenheimer.
Murphy agreed with the suggestion that the current wave of success in the Irish film industry can be put down to foundations laid by directors Jim Sheridan and Neil Jordan.
“I remember vividly, you know, back in the 90s when Jim and Neil were winning their Oscars and Daniel Day Lewis won and Brenda Fricker.
“They were huge moments in our cultural landscape as a country I think and they certainly inspired me as a young fella even though I wasn’t an actor then, but they were just inspiring to the country. And I think the work that Screen Ireland has done as well has been brilliant.”
Asked if the Oscars would be a benefit to him in his future career choices, he said:
“Honestly, I really don’t think about it in strategic terms. Everyone says this but it’s true no one makes films to win awards, we just make them because we enjoy making them.”
He expressed admiration for Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan, and credited him for challenging audiences and making films that “have to be seen in the cinema”.
Finally, when it was put to him that he may now be the most famous Cork man, more famous than Graham Norton and Roy Keane, Murphy said, “To me, no one will be more famous than Roy Keane coming out of Cork.”
“I’m a big Roy Keane fan so he’s always number one for me… sorry Graham.”
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Making a show of our country. Poor woman.
Too right.
A little creti!n like that probably already had a record before sneaking in as an economic migrant! They’re sleepwalking into an immigration crisis. Block up the borders I say.
Oh wait, sorry, I replied on the wrong article.
Is that the one about the Pakistani rapist wanted in the UK and last spotted in Limerick?
You could copy and paste the above to that article easily enough and it would blend right in.
Ciaran
Except the Irish have gone to UK for years, another European country where we have nearly the same ancestral and cultural heritage and the Irish do not in general cause any problems in Britain, contrast that with the Pakistani and Asian populations who have gone on to create no-go areas in UK, gone on to gangrape 1400 white British girls in 1 UK town alone of Rotherham, 400 in Oxfordshire, 500 in Newcastle.
Your attempt to use this 1 incident for the purposes to advertise that we should open our borders to incompatible ethnicities and cultures, is the typical lowlife behaviour we have come to expect from immigration-pushers.
What sort of an animal assaults an 80 year old woman.
Dragged up lowlifes who were never taught the meaning of respect Stephen.
a monster walking the streets. …regardless of what accent it has it should be put down
If the perpetrator had a foreign accent, the outcry from our home grown right wing nutters would be huge but an Irish man, ah right he probably didn’t mean to hurt her, just havin the craic!
Matt
Wrong, pro Irish people would condemn all acts of criminality. It is usually the far-left who are soft on crime. The right wing as you put it are FF, FG and lab, all proponents of open-borders. The only people for the Irish people are patriots and nationalists. The only nutters who exist are people in this country forcing intrusive and interfering policies of multicult upon them which change their ethnicity and living circumstances forever. That is what you are doing, you are the nutter Matt.
@Lasar
Coming from you I take the “nutter” as a compliment!
What patriots you are referring to?
The Provos? Blue shirts? Or the drunken yobs in our various social housing estates, living off the tax payers money and flagging the Tricolour while peddling some coke and heroin to the hood?
Real patriots wouldn’t be as
short sighted and narrow minded as you are. A lot of noise but no substance!
Your solutions for complex problems fit on a bumper sticker!
Cough, Travellers, cough, there isn’t an 80 within 50 miles of Rathkeale who haunt been assaulted, raped and robbed at this point in time….
Making a show of our country? Yeah the whole nation will be painted as granny bashers cos of this one mugs actions? Also who is to say it wasn’t a northy accent?
yes. I love in London and the only Irish accent they can distinguish is the northern one
Malcolm, there are people who generalise the actions of a group or nation’s people by the actions of a tiny minority, and who would see a story such as this and cite it as an example of typical Irish behaviours.
For more information on racism, please check the comments sections of any thejournal.ie articles discussing refugees.
A history lesson for you wee Ciaran.8000 YRS ago hunter gatherers walked from Europe to what would much later become Britain-yes walked because it was before the white cliffs of Dover or the English Channel existed.These people`s descendants are still around.No they are not the English.They are the indigenous people of Ireland,Scotland,Cornwall,IOM and Wales.Now if one of them is back in the now island of Britain they have every right to be-because we were here first.Think on that the next time you cry watching Dances With Wolves,love.
It could very well have been an Irish guy. But I will draw your attention to harry Stanley, a Scottish man who was shot dead by police in London in 1999 after someone reported him as having an Irish accent.
It says a female confronted and pushed the old lady so why are they looking for a man with an irish accent?
Goes to show, young or old, always hold the tongue when you’re out numbered !
Disgusting thing to do. But I live overseas and have been mistaken for English, Australian and even South African so you never know
I was asked if I am from Austria. (From Dublin)
Knacker
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