Cillian Murphy says he knows what a meme is now

nme.com:

Cillian Murphy says he knows what a meme is now after admitting previously in an NME interview that he didn’t know what one was.The Oppenheimer actor took part in a Variety ‘actors on actors’ interview with Barbie star Margot Robbie when she asked him if he knew what a meme was.Robbie said to Murphy: “I have watched a lot of your things on YouTube, and it’s out there on the internet that you are not that aware of memes and things like that.

First of all, is that true?”He replied: “I have two teenage boys. I do know what a meme is. Now I know that there are memes about me not knowing what a meme is.”Robbie went on to joke that “it’s a great meme” and described it as being “like the “Inception” of memes.

A meme within a meme.”Murphy replied that he “genuinely at the time…did not know” what a meme was. He added: “people forget that was a long time ago.”Robbie then went on to admit she herself “might not have known back then what a meme” was, adding that she was “not that tech-savvy.”Murphy continued: “Exactly.

And I think children started that stuff, right? Now that it’s become this sort of meme that’s eating itself, I am aware. But it’s mostly because of people either sending it to me or showing me and saying, “Look, you gotta look at this.”You can watch his interview with Robbie and the original NME meme interview below:Throwback to the moment #CillianMurphy a) found out what a meme was, and b) learned there was one meme entirely dedicated to him.