#i'm watching peaky blinders and cillian murphy is a very good actor!

[ravenbloodshot]

Cillian Murphy (Actor)... Pet Peeves Reading (sort of)

Could be a pretty impatient (go go go) type of man so he doesn't like when ppl are in his way, in his walking path. But also career wise (in his way) or in anything else he's set his mind to do. He likely tunnel visions when he's focusing on a task or work so if you were to get in his way during that time he might literally nudge you out the way or speak bluntly/aggressively to you until you get lost

He hates ppl that believe the world revolves around them (I heard "snarky bitches"). I definitely feel this energy is directed at prissy ass celebrities that walk around like their blood doesn't run red like everyone else (celebs that have a superiority complex and view themself higher than regular ppl. I also lowkey think he doesn't like to hang around celebs outside of work/events. He could surround himself with a lot of normal ppl, maybe even the type to disguise himself and go to regular clubs/bars just to converse with non celebs

I don't know what's going on but this guy's energy is strange (not in a good or bad way). It's just that his energy seems to want me to ask him about his personality or just ask things that go a little deeper about him (its like when you meet a talkative stranger that's lonely and as soon as you strike up conversation with them they won't quit talking). So guy's, I'm going to follow his lead and switch to a personality reading on him since he seems to want that.

He's quite childlike and innocent, very careless and a freedom seeker so he can find himself in trouble and can't get himself out of it (calling his family, manager etc. .. to help him out of his mess even when he's been warned beforehand not to do certain things). He can be a bit too trusting of ppl and doesn't have enough boundaries set against ppl who wish him no good. He's like a guy that befriends a homeless person (not exactly a bad thing) but if that person had bad intentions, he would never notice it or put two and two together to why money in his wallet keeps going missing and other things of that sort

He's a very creative man with a lot of self confidence in his skills, looks and abilities. He knows very well what the public wants from him and he's self assured that he can constantly meet their expectations (even exceed it). I've never watched the show Peaky Blinders but I think the character he played has a similar personality to him and I mean that for his good + bad qualities. Because I'm also seeing a temper that rolls deep, like a destructive temper in which he doesn't care what he says or what he does. He just wants to get back at whoever pissed him off. He could have a problem letting things go especially slights against him

He's a very romantic and loving man that knows how to charm and bring that ultra passion in romantic relationships but he could also use his charms on everyone (likely unintentionally since his Venus in Taurus just makes him a naturally flirtatious man) but he could make a lot of ppl want him, damn near do anything to be with him

I do see he's quite bossy and pushy, doesn't really take no for an answer (a card came out saying "Shut your mouth and listen"). I think when he commands ppl, they tend to listen not just because of who he his but his voice may carry power (especially when he's bossing ppl around)

Yeah this guy is very bossy, he's used to being listened to and having things his way, and he definitely got his way with the direction of this reading lol. It's like his energy was like "Nah, don't ask me about that. Take a deeper look at my personality instead" and it didn't feel like he was asking but that he was telling me

Roll Deep by Hyuna is a song that fits this readings energy

#cillian murphy #cillian x reader #cillian murphy tarot #gemini sun #spotify #Spotify

[denimbex1986]

"Hi, I'm Emily Blunt."

"Hello, I'm Cillian Murphy."

"Hi, I'm Matt Damon."

"And we're here with - and we're here with The Hollywood Reporter, talking about our Hollywood firsts."

"It could have been Star Wars because I'm a Star Wars kid but - "

"But everyone's a Star Wars kid."

"Yeah."

"I know, but it's the first time that like, because I was seven - "

"Yeah."

" - it came out in 77, I was pre; in the summer I was probably six. It was the first time that I ever went and got completely captured by a movie experience where, where I was taken to some other place that I didn't; and I just thought it was amazing and I wanted to be Luke and Han Solo. I wanted to be all those guys, and so I went home and immediately started dressing up like them and playing like them and, you know -"

"Well the - one of the first films I remember watching was 'Old Yeller.' Did you guys ever see that movie?"

"Yeah."

"And I remember being just like, destroyed by it, and wanting to do a movie with a dog."

"The first audition I went on was for 'The Four Feathers', that Shekhar Kapur directed."

"Oh my god, really? Yeah?"

"Yes."

"Heath did it."

"Heath did it. And I ended up doing the table read for him, even though I knew I wasn't going to get the part, but I was like 17 and at a table read with Heath Ledger and I was like: 'Oh my God.'"

"Oh, the first audition I did was for a, for a play in Cork called 'Disco Pigs' and - "

"And you got it."

"Yeah, and I'd never done anything before in my life; it was my first professional gig."

"Actors love hearing that story - my first audition, I booked."

"Nailed it."

"And nailed it."

"Yeah, but you know that, you know that confidence of youth where you just -"

"Yeah, you don't think about it."

" - you don't know anything so - "

"Yeah."

"The first big Hollywood paycheck I got in my mind was I got twenty-five thousand dollars for doing a mo - a TV movie called 'Rising Sun'. And, I bought my brother a car and I put my mum through her PhD program and that, that was a really cool feeling."

"I think I bought like a, a record player and, or a sound system. No, because it; record players weren't, they weren't as cool as they are now, were they?"

"Yeah. I feel like I moved out. Like, I think that was the first; I got, I rented an apartment. I feel like that was the first - like, being able to not live with my parents."

"I know mine is a - this animated movie called 'Spirit.' It was the first movie that - and that, that was a good one for the kids."

"Yeah."

"I think that's like the only movie they've seen."

"They saw 'Mary Poppins' - was the first one I think."

"Come on."

"Yeah. I think I put it on and walked away - "

"Yeah."

" - but then I think it's strange for your children to watch you. Like, they have - it's like you really are somebody else and it's disconcerting for them. And it was disconcerting for my kids, because especially with 'Poppins', it's like a - I look different, I had this like wig on, I sound different."

"Well they kind of know you at a soul level - "

"Yeah."

" - and so to see you as something that you, they know you're not - "

"Is strange for them."

"Yeah, yeah."

"Do - do your boys find it strange really?"

"Yeah but, but they're very underwhelmed. You know, they're very unimpressed."

"Suitably underwhelmed, unimpressed."

"They're big Peaky Blinders fans."

"No, they've never seen Peaky Blinders."

"They've never seen it?"

"No. I think they mi -they watched the, the Batman movies - "

"Yeah."

" - when they were old enough. But most of my stuff is highly unsuitable."

"I met Cillian; John and I went to see Cillian's play before we did Quiet Place II together - "

"Yeah."

"I mean, we were so desperate to work with him obviously but - and then when we did Quiet Place II, we were; we were like thick as thieves, quickly."

"It was good fun."

"And it was so great for us then having this kind of shared experience, this shared history, to go be thrust into like a married couple and - "

"I think you get something for free when you work with people that you've worked with already - "

"Yeah."

" - and you've gotten on with; it - it just kind of transfers onto the screen - particularly if you're playing a couple with history. We didn't meet till - "

"No, till this."

" - till Oppenheimer."

"No, till this."

"Yeah."

"But you guys - "

"Till this interview, yeah."

"Matt, Matt doesn't do off-camera; I didn't know if that was public knowledge but - "

"And I don't want other actors around when I'm on camera. Yeah. we met for the audition for Adjustment Bureau."

"In like, 2009?"

"Yeah."

"We've known each other for far too long. Matt lives in my building so I - I'm actually not used to seeing you in regular shoes; I only see you in slippers - it's very strange."

"When we come down for dinner I just wear slippers."

"I haven't seen him in shoes for a couple of years I think."

"It's true."

"I found it so emotional. I remember Chris coming in and it was a staggering script. And visceral and captivating like - the trauma of living with a brain like that was so palpable in the script, and I was so scared I wouldn't understand it."

"It was really overwhelming - "

"Yeah."

" - and, and it was the first script I've ever read, or ever even heard of that was written in the first person."

"Yeah."

"So, it's - Oppenheimer is using 'I' - I'm doing this and I'm doing that, I'm now walking over here, I'm not; and it's like: 'Oh my God.' And so by the end of the script I just; I was totally overwhelmed. And I kind of offended Chris because he came over and I, I - and he said: "What do you think?", and I just kind of blurted out: "I have no notes." Which was, to me, the greatest thing you could say to another writer. You just go like: "Look, look man, I have, I have nothing to say - this is amazing." But, but when Emily met with him like, like a week later, she was very effusive in her praise and very articulate, and he was like: "Well it's better than I got from him. I just got 'He had no notes.'"

"No notes, yeah. Chris was like: "That's a lot better than Damon's reaction to it."

"I think it may have been like, one of the best scripts I've ever read. For -"

"Yeah."

"For sure."

"Yeah."

"And the scope of it and the ambition of it; this, the, the - "

"The ambition of it. The book is so dense and there's so much history, and he's kind of woven all of it into this; it's like every frame of the movie is so dense and rich and packed."

"How was it for you, reading it in the first person?"

"Exhilarating. You know, because it's completely subjective, you know?"

"Yeah."

"And that's what he, he intended to do with the movie was make a lot of it through Oppenheimer's eyes and experience it as, as Oppenheimer was - was experiencing it."

"Thank you for enduring our Hollywood firsts."

#Emily Blunt #Cillian Murphy #Matt Damon #Oppenheimer #Spirit #Disco Pigs #Heath Ledger #Christopher Nolan #Star Wars #Old Yeller #Peaky Blinders #Mary Poppins #The Adjustment Bureau #A Quiet Place Part II #The Four Feathers #Shekhar Kapur #Rising Sun #Batman

[bettsfic]

absolutely agree! i remember years ago hearing the news that sam got cast in peaky blinders, and i was SO shocked and thought there was absolutely no way he could compete on screen with actors like cillian murphy and helen mccrory. and then was even more ??? to find out he was playing THE big bad literal-nazi villain. and then was just completely blown away by his performance (which i also think is quite layered! as blatantly evil as his character is, it's still a complex performance that repeatedly puts the viewer in a complicated position), and i couldn't believe this guy has been doing rom-coms when these are the roles he should be doing (nothing wrong with doing rom-coms! i only say that because i think he's not particularly good in standard-romantic-lead roles lol and phenomenal in dramatic roles like these!). another actor i can think of with this issue is hugh dancy, who was also repeatedly miscast as a romantic lead and then briefly got hannibal and delivered an insane shakespearean performance and easily stood his ground against an actor like mads mikkelsen. sam's character in djats is definitely quite layered though (and i'm sure many would argue is the villain of the story), and so far he gives a solid performance! like i said, the only flaw i ever really find in his performances is the overacting, but that also just might be personal preference surrounding acting choices! this tweet is very very relevant though: https://twitter.com/francescaaahhhh/status/1631492004332048385

sam is so good in peaky blinders i 100% forgot he was even in it. he made that season bearable to watch. (i tried watching the newest season; i just can't take it anymore. the squandered plot and character potential to heighten toxic masculinity without attempting to interrogate it at all is far too painful.)

i was actually going to mention hugh dancy in the last ask! but since i haven't watched all of hannibal i wasn't certain about it. i'm glad to know my impressions were right.

the gifsets of djats are really getting to me and i may buckle before the whole season is out. that's what happened with house of the dragon too. if so i imagine i will be reblogging said gifsets.

THE TWEET omg

#djats

[monstermoviedean]

unparalleled media experience especially because there is no equivalent to jacting joices in any other media. i'm serious. it's some combination of winchester derangement syndrome + an ever-changing list of writers and directors + 15 seasons' worth of material and it means that at many points jensen knew dean winchester better than anyone else in the room. and i know, i know some of the joices were likely suggested by directors or producers or the scripts or other cast members. but every time we get a new script there's something on the screen that's different, something better, some missing piece of the 4d puzzle that is dean winchester.

#i'm watching peaky blinders and cillian murphy is a very good actor! #but i have never once gone 'wow he did this when the obvious choice was to do this' #or 'look at this tiny insignificant bit of body language which clearly says this' #it's partly because i'm normal about this show #but partly because the show does not ask you to assemble its characters #his character is supposed to be entirely legible #there are parts that are intentionally hidden but you can guess by the shapes of the shadows #but dean winchester is all constantly shifting shadows interrupted by periodic bursts of light #and jensen knows exactly when and where to shine that light #i said before thst dean is supposed to be legible and cas is the constantly shifting one #and i still believe that #the way tptb created dean was to be legible #but on-screen there's nuance and depth and life #you can see an entirely new world out of the corner of your eye #okay i obviously need to go to fucking bed. good night #spn

[missymurphy1985]

Nobody's Perfect

Cillian Murphy - the 'nice guy of Hollywood'. Is he really though?

Warnings - smut (like, immediately...) / angst / Cillian's a bad boy... Sorry if this isn't your kinda deal, I wanted to try something a little different... Maybe he won't ALWAYS be that way, huh?

Taglist Taglist @queenshelby @margoo0 @being-worthy @peakyscillian @ntmynouis @janelongxox @elenavampire21 @noctvrnalmoth @ysmmsy @cloudofdisney

His head between your thighs, your hands pulling at his hair, your orgasm was approaching you quickly, his tongue and fingers driving you absolutely wild.

"Cillian... Yes... Fuck..." His tongue lapped at your clit over and over, his fingers knuckle deep, pressing that sweet spot inside, making your legs shake. He hummed into your core, sending shockwaves through you as you came hard against his face, his eyes never leaving your face, watching you come undone. Once you'd calmed, he moved quickly, digging a condom out of his wallet. You reached down and helped him pull it over his hard shaft, making him groan at the feel of your fingers brushing over him. Lining himself up against your entrance, he pushed inside.

"So tight... Fuck y/n..." His movements slow but powerful.

"Don't stop.. right there.. harder!" he pulled one of your legs up against his chest, tilting your hips slightly to get the angle just right. Your vision blurred slightly from the intensity, a second orgasm quickly forming.

"Good girl... That's it...." His thrusts came harder now, pounding into you just the way you needed it. His fingers brushed over your sensitive clit and you came again, sending him over the edge with a deep groan.

He pulled out, catching the condom and discarding in the bin, before sitting in the chair opposite the bed in your hotel room, where you lay catching your breath.

"That was something else, Cill... Jesus..." You leaned back into the pillows, slightly surprised that he wasn't in the bed with you. He simply sat in the chair and looked out the window before reaching for his jeans and pulling them back on. You suddenly felt extremely self-conscious and pulled the duvet over your body.

"It was good. I need to go.. I'll see you on set tomorrow afternoon, yeah?" He pulled on his t-shirt, slipped his boots back on, fixed his hair in the mirror, stole one more glance at you and walked out the door, not giving you any chance to question it. You didn't even have the words if he had given you the chance.

Earlier that night

"You gonna let me buy my leading lady a drink y/n?" Cillian approached you at the bar in the hotel you and the rest of the Peaky Blinders cast were staying in during filming. You'd just wrapped up your first week of series 1, and had the following morning off - you were all in the mood to let your hair down a little after an intense week shooting. He had been making a real effort with you all week. Making excuses to talk to you even though you hadn't had any scenes together yet and there was no reason to, he seemed sweet and kind - not how you expected a big shot Hollywood actor to be in the slightest.

"Vodka and lemonade, please." You smiled. Cillian had been cast as Thomas Shelby, you as his love interest. You hadn't filmed any scenes together yet, but your first would be tomorrow afternoon. You were more than nervous. This was your first ever role - Cillian was obviously a seasoned pro at this point. You didn't want to let him or anyone down.

"Your first scene with me tomorrow, how're you feeling?" He asked as you sat at the small table in the corner with him.

"Nervous! But it's what I've trained for my whole life - I'm excited too. The first week seems to have gone well!"

"Very well. I'm sure you'll be grand - our first scene together is a rough one though!"

"I haven't been sent the schedule yet, what is it?" He raised his eyebrows and laughed.

"Let's say it involves a desk and you being bent over it!" He smirked.

"You're kidding? They've scheduled THAT for tomorrow?!" You necked your drink quickly. "Fucks sake... That's one way to build a chemistry with your co-star huh?"

"That's why they do it - means you're instantly comfortable with each other if you do the, um, intimate scenes first.." you nodded, unable to look away from his eyes. They were locked with yours.

"Scenes? There's more than one?" Cillian smirked again and knocked his own drink back.

A few more drinks later and you were definitely going to have a hangover in the morning, you were staggering a little when Cillian kindly offered to walk you back to your hotel room. Which is where he ended up with his face buried between your legs, and where he'd just left you completely alone without so much as a kiss goodbye. You'd never felt so stupid and ashamed - you'd been suckered in completely, falling for his 'nice guy' routine..

You were seething, pulling the duvet over you. This wasn't your fault - HE was the asshole.

"Fuck you Murphy," you typed, sending the message. A quick reply.

"You just did love."

Asshole.

[zalrb]

Did you finish peaky blinders? What did you think of the finale? Also why do you think Cilian is a good actor? I find him very hard to read, like I'm not the best at picking up on cues but alot of the time I have no idea how he is feeling because he is so poker faced. I always see people saying he's an amazing actor though.

In terms of Cillian Murphy's acting:

https://zalrb.tumblr.com/post/621586314972774400/can-you-explain-scenes-that-show-cilian-murphys

https://zalrb.tumblr.com/post/624933523145605120/i-remember-your-post-talking-about-cillian-murphy

https://zalrb.tumblr.com/post/657201644347555840/hmm-sterling-k-brown-viola-davis-margot-robbie

https://zalrb.tumblr.com/post/621506047039963137/favorite-thomas-shelby-moments

https://zalrb.tumblr.com/post/656756087753719808/oh-interesting-hmm-cillian-murphy-sterling-k

In terms of how I felt about the finale, honestly I had no strong feelings about it. I had no strong feelings about season 6 in general except that I thought Cillian was fantastic and I always appreciate going into the psychology of Tommy so season 6 being a real character piece for him being in his darkest mindset was interesting but not interesting enough for me to feel strongly about the season as a whole.

They repeated Polly's words over and over throughout the season about the war in the family and someone is going to die except there really wasn't a war in the family, Michael was out of commission by being put in prison and then essentially right when he gets out, Tommy kills him. I hate Michael so I'm glad he's dead but it wasn't a moment of relief or catharsis or YES for me, I was just like, oh. I guess. I also didn't really see why there had to be a fascism plot line for two seasons when nothing is exactly done with it, like I understand that Mosley is a real historical figure but that whole plot line just seemed aimless.

Lizzie, just ... I felt like she deserved better but I was also annoyed with what they did with her this season so her finally leaving and Charlie going with her was like, fine.

If anything it just made me want to watch the first three seasons again.

[nofeartina]

Everytime venom is on tv, I'm watching it! My mom hates it and i think she hates me a little as well cause she finds the movie disgusting (she doesn't like these type of movies) but it's not like I'm watching venom for the plot, i started watching taboo but i didn't started it for the plot. I did it to stare at tom hardy just like i was 😍😍😍😍😍 ejgoksksj whenever i was seeing him in peaky blinders alongside cillian Murphy. Or inception. I mean, yeah, the plot, but also every actor

Yasssssssss. Tom Hardy is just..... Wow. The charm and the eyes and those slutty lips, I'm...

I've been reading so much inception ff lately that I had to rewatch it which of course let me down the rabbit hole (a very lovely one of that lbr) of his movies. And he's so pretty in Venom so of course I had to watch that as one of the first!!

HONESTLY, that movie is so gay - a romcom with a dude and his alien tentacly symbiote, where one of the first lines of dialogue between them are "I am venom and you are mine." I MEAN!!!! It's like the tentacle smut fics write themselves! 😆

Thank you for letting me gush over Tom Hardy and Venom, sweet anon. It's always good to know I'm not alone. 😁😁😁

#Look at those lips #Omg #Tom hardy

[singinginthecar]

Oooo! those are good movies! :) my favorite actors and actresses would be Tom Holland, Jennifer Lawrence, Will Smith, Scarlett Johansson (can't wait for Black Widow!), Robert Downey Jr, Jim Carrey, and Kristen Stewart! What are your favorite actors and actresses? What do you like about them? :)) -🎅

ooooh that's a really good list! my blog has been looking a mess lately so i really appreciate you managing to wade through it and sending me these messages from time to time. thank you! my fave actors/actresses are Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, Ezra Miller, Olivia Wilde, Cillian Murphy, Dev Patel and recently, Robert Pattinson. Mostly I love actors for who they are and the reasons why they choose to do certain movies. Deepika & Ranveer are my fave Bollywood couple and they're just AMAZING and so much fun to watch on screen! I've watched very few Bollywood movies and my fave so far is 'Padmaavat' starring these two and it's... everything! Ezra Miller is just such a stunning being inside & out and I love everything about him! His interviews really make him seem like such an ethereal being. Olivia Wilde is so unbelievably smart and talented and really, I don't need reasons beyond that to stan her. Also... her jawline 💯 I've loved Cillian Murphy since 'Inception' and recently, I've fallen more in love with him watching 'The Peaky Blinders'! It's probably one of the best tv shows I've ever watched and if you haven't watched it, I'd recommend you to! Dev Patel imho has my entire heart with every single one of his performances and also, he's one of the only brown people achieving as much as he is in Hollywood. Robert Pattinson is so so so freaking underrated because no one seems to know about his work outside of 'Twilight'... like dude he is so unbelievably untalented and amazing. Also, he talks like he's high in every single one of interviews. So basically, he's the best!

I'm so sorry this was so long, I just love talking about these people!! ♡ How's your day been? Is there anything you're looking forward to this weekend?

#this was so long #so so sorry #secret santa 2019 #ask #anon

[funnythingshere0-blog]

'I'm always wearing my character shoes': On set with Cillian Murphy

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'I'm always wearing my character shoes': On set with Cillian Murphy

Film sets are funny places. In a cold redbrick terraced house on Westfield Road in Harold’s Cross, Dublin, I’m walking around with blue plastic bags on my feet, looking at pictures of the family who really own this house, while actors Eva Birthistle and Catherine Walker are wandering around joking about their onscreen hair styles. “It’s all about volume,” Birthistle is saying. “All about the volume.”

It’s the set of The Delinquent Season, a low-budget domestic drama set in a series of middle-class homes, not a space ship, submarine or underground lair, and it’s Mark O’Rowe’s film directorial debut. “I’d directed theatre but not film,” says the award-winning writer of Howie the Rookie, Intermission and Boy A. “It’s quite tough to write a script and then give it to a director and have them put their own authorial stamp on it, and I got tired of that. Not that I was ever disappointed in what anyone did, but it’s quite hard to hand something over. So with this one I thought I’d take it all the way from its origin to putting it out in the world.”

Today’s scene takes place at an uncomfortably realistic dinner party in which Andrew Scott’s character overreacts to a small criticism and squabbles with his wife, played by Catherine Walker, to the discomfort of everyone else. Scott’s character, as it turns out, has an upsetting secret but his brusqueness leads to some drama-spurring consequences before this is ever revealed. Anyway, before you know it you’ve got a melodrama about ordinary people dealing with infidelity and illness and love.

I watch the action in the kitchen via a monitor while various anoraked crew members are making tea and eating sandwiches. Then I watch the same scene several times in the dining room, behind the fourth wall where O’Rowe and the camera crew live. The actors slip in and out of character effortlessly because, well, they’re professional actors. At one point, Birthistle realises her unsophisticated fluffly slippers might be in shot. “I’m not wearing my character shoes!” she says.

“You’re not wearing your character shoes,” says Scott in mock horror. “Personally, I can’t get into the role without my character shoes.”

“I’m always wearing my character shoes,” says Cillian Murphy, the fourth member of the core quartet.

And then they’re all in character again for another take, character shoes or not. “It’s easy for them, I think,” says O’Rowe with some wonder. “They’re brilliant actors.”

‘A brilliant writer’

The admiration is mutual. “He’s just a brilliant writer,” says Murphy. “I don’t want to embarrass him now, but I’ve done a few of his films and I’ve always loved the dialogue and what the films are trying to say. What I love about this film is that it’s a drama, a pure out-and-out drama for grown-ups. And these are really few and far between now in the climate we have in cinema the world over. To see a film about middle-class couples in Dublin, a very intense, very compelling drama . . . it’s a small story but its ramifications are massive for these people. It’s the sort of work you want to be involved in.”

“I think the chief attribute of this script is how unjudgemental it is,” says Scott. “So much bad drama is about something we feel safe in making a very quick judgement about. What’s beautiful and ultimately very moving about this story is that we all do things in our life that we don’t necessarily have a full consciousness about. It doesn’t make you a bad person or a good person, just a person.”

As a younger actor I was into getting as far the f**k away from myself as possible

What was the origin of the script? “I wanted to do a love affair story within which there were no easy answers or moral outs for the audience,” says O’Rowe. “We didn’t make one of the partners a horrible person [and]we didn’t make it about the psychological malaise of living in suburbia. I wanted to have a story in which the four principle characters were morally quite strong. It’s kind of easier to make the characters horrible people and see how they tear each other apart. But I thought, what would happen if something like this happened to four people who were inherently good? Lots of marriages break up, lots of affairs happen, lots of marriages become destroyed and then new relationships are born out of those . . . I wanted the characters to be making decisions based on what an inherently good person would do.”

Do they keep in character over lunch or do they do anything to recharge?

“We don’t get lunch,” deadpans Scott. He’s joking. The budget is low but there is lunch.

“I think in some ways it’s, I’m reluctant to use the word easy, but when you can relate to it and it’s based on reality, there’s a real normality to the performance and delivery and writing,” says Birthistle. “Then again [my character]is much more straightforward. She’s very clear-thinking and makes decisions better or more clearly than others.”

She’s the one who’s in the right? She laughs. “I’m the best of this gang.”

‘Opposite of escapism’

“This type of film is kind of the opposite of escapism,” says Murphy. “I think when people go and see this film they’ll go, ‘God, I could be them, what would I do?’ Because they’re all such normal characters. . . Certainly as a younger actor I was into getting as far the f**k away from myself as possible, to physically change my voice, my hair, everything. This is really delicate. It’s a slight adjustment to who you are as a person because we all know the milieu in which these characters move and we’re of a certain age where we have kids or know people with kids. It’s all very close to home.”

Is it hard to get funding for a film like this? “Well you know the length of our shoot [three weeks] so yes,” says O’Rowe. “For me, if I write something I feel strongly about and am desperate to make, it’s worth the battles you have to fight to make it happen. It’s a low-budget drama. If it was a thriller or horror movie I’m not sure it would have the same obstacles or budget. A nice thing about a story like this is that it’s quite self-contained. It doesn’t have a huge number of locations and it’s a story that’s very much carried by the actors.”

“We all agreed at the read-through we had to come really prepared,” says Birthistle. “There’s no time for faffing around not knowing your lines, so we make a point of running lines with each other between scenes.”

Tell me about today’s scene? Scott laughs. “This scene isn’t particularly intense,” he says. “Sorry to disappoint you.”

“The point of this scene is its banality, really,” says O’Rowe.

“Banality is hard to do,” says Murphy. “We’ve all been at these sorts of dinner parties [but] it requires a huge amount of concentration. It’s kind of anti-drama. The temperature [in the scene] just changes.”

“What actors do astonishes me,” says O’Rowe shaking his head. “I find sometimes when the scene is very, very emotional I feel scared for them and think, ‘Oh God, I have to make them do it again’, but they’re like, ‘Ah grand, fine’.”

“Because it’s exhilarating for us,” says Birthistle.

“Last week I was thinking ‘They’re really going through it now,’” says O’Rowe. “And I was talking to Catherine in a scene and she was going ‘Smoke and mirrors, smoke and mirrors’ as the tears were running down her face.”

The Delinquent Season’s high-profile cast

Cillian Murphy: He has played an Irish revolutionary in The Wind that Shook the Barley, a zombie-apocalypse survivor in 28 Days Later, a supervillain in the Batman films and he is the lead in BBC’s ongoing period crime drama Peaky Blinders.

Eva Birthistle: She has been in films like Brooklyn, UK drama series The State Within, The Last Enemy and Waking the Dead and she currently stars in the BBC’s Bernard Cornwell adaptation The Last Kingdom.

Andrew Scott: The Dubliner is best known for playing Sherlock Holmes’s arch-nemesis Moriarty in the BBC’s Sherlock and has appeared in films including The Stag, Handsome Devil and Pride and Spectre.

Catherine Walker: She has starred in the Irish horror film A Dark Song, UK dramas Strike Back and Critical and she currently features in the French-Canadian period drama Versailles.