lost his voice; no stage training, just life experience
"only talks to the press in connection to a film's opening"
ukelele
Maybury on his Edge performance, him on the part
Telegraph magazine
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Neil Jordan, who directed him in his latest film, Breakfast on Pluto, remembers his first encounter with a young Murphy. In a Dublin editing suite he glimpsed by changes the rushes for a film called On The Edge. ‘Here was this guy driving a car over a cliff, and he folded his arms and looked right at you. That was Cillian. It was extraordinary,’ the director recalls. ‘Cillian’s got those amazing eyes - and he knows how not to blink. It’s amazing the kind of effect he has on a viewer.’
WHEN HE GOT THE PART IN DISCO PIGS (could augment Disco Pigs section in support of an image)
HIS MOTHER PLAYS GUITAR
WHEN HE LEFT SCHOOL
SOURCE FOR "So New"
Songwriting - playing the ukelele
he was on the dole in Dublin for a year
"He is constantly in touch with his brother, now a design engineer, and his two sisters, studying in Ireland."
Meeting rock stars, he says, gives him a far bigger kick than meeting actors. "Every time I go to a gig," he admits with a smile, "there's a little voice inside me going, 'I wish it was me.'"
interview for BOP with WPS1.org/Stephen Schaefer
how to cite?
Started with drums
Edge of Love
The Age 8/29/08
The Water
Add that it made festivals, use quote from Dazed & Confused.