In a recent interview with British GQ, Irish actor Cillian Murphy disclosed that Christopher Nolan, his frequent collaborator and director on six occasions, sends a family member to deliver scripts by hand. Murphy, who stars as theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in the upcoming and leading 13-Oscar nominated film, Oppenheimer, stated that it “adds a ritual to it, which I really appreciate. It suits me.” Nolan’s mother or brother has previously delivered scripts to Murphy, but for Oppenheimer the director flew to Dublin himself and alone left Murphy to read the script in a hotel room. “He doesn’t have a phone or anything. But he knew instinctively when to come back,” noted Murphy.
The 45-year-old actor, who shot to fame in the 2002 film 28 Days Later, appeared in the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk for Nolan before Oppenheimer. Murphy and Nolan “have a shorthand that can create more space for spontaneity and improvisation. We can read each other well,” he said. The director’s work pace does not diminish that, according to Murphy, who described Nolan’s film sets as a “private, intimate laboratory.” Murphy explained that there are no chairs and nobody announces anything, because “everybody just knows.”
Murphy, who is set to appear in the upcoming Peaky Blinders movie, also revealed during the interview that he does not watch any of his films. His focus instead is on the performance, which he has experienced already. “My job is done when it’s finished. It’s very, very rare for me to revisit and watch stuff.”
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