6 crucial life lessons from Cillian Murphy
From Breakfast On Pluto, to surviving till 28 Days Later, actor Cillian Murphy has enjoyed some amazing roles… although stepping into Iggy Pop’s shoes for 6 Music is among his most prized parts.
Joining us again on Friday 6 April from 7pm, Murphy not only shares his favourite music, but the life lessons and experience he's picked up on set, on stage and beyond.
So with one of his other famous roles, Peaky Blinders’ Thomas Shelby, being known for sorting out what’s what, here are 6 life lessons we've gleamed from Mr Murphy.
1. Don't pick a fight with a crow
Cillian Murphy: I’m actually doing a play at the moment called Grief Is The Thing With Feathers and in it I get to be a crow. I’ve been using Tom Waits’ song 16 Shells From A 30.6 a lot to get into the crow-like state, there’s something very crow-like about that piece of music I think. Also, there’s a beautiful lyric in it that says “A black crow snuck through a hole in the sky” which I thought was pretty amazing.
Interesting thing about crows, right, crows have a sense of irony – I don’t know how you measure this but apparently it’s true – they’re as intelligent as monkeys. They did an experiment on them where one guy dressed up in a Dick Cheney mask and the other one was in an unremarkable mask.
The guy in the Cheney mask got into an altercation with the crows, and they told all their other crow friends to watch out for him. Any time he came along the other crows would attack him.
Apparently he did it two years later and they still attacked him… then ten years later after a lot of the original crows had died, their children attacked him too. I bet you didn’t know that?
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