Hozier on “trying to play it cool” meeting Cillian Murphy with a “rough” hangover
nme.comHozier has opened up about the time he tried to “play it cool” when he met actor Cillian Murphy – despite him nursing what he described as a “rough” hangover.The musician revealed the story during a show at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota earlier this month (as per Music News), pausing his set to recount the anecdote to fans.Hozier, real name Andrew Hozier-Byrne, recalled meeting up with a “best old mate”, saying he and his friend ended up “drinking very heavily all night, as you do”.Despite the heavy night, Hozier had to catch a flight the next morning – and once at the airport, it was here where he bumped into Murphy.Remembering the morning after the drinking session, he explained: “I stand up quickly, and I am quite tall.
It’s been said to me, ‘If I fall down, I would be halfway home’… I was walking at full pace and I just went, ‘Boom!’ My head hit the window at such force.”Hozier walked “straight into a wall”, saying he was in “rough shape” but managed to make it to the airport.“I’m like rattled.
You know, that type of hangover where you’re shaking,” he continued.“And then I look over to the left of me on this plane and I see a famous Irish actor.
I’m also subject to celebrity shock where you see somebody you’ve seen on screen a thousand times and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, that’s a famous person’.
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