‘Oppenheimer’ star Cillian Murphy refuses to take photos with his fans
nypost.comhe told GQ, “it changed my life. I just think it’s better to say hello and have a little conversation. I tell that to a lot of people, you know, actor friends of mine, and they’re just like, ‘I feel so bad.’ But you don’t need a photo record of everywhere you’ve been in a day.”During his interview with the outlet, Murphy was approached by an admirer that wanted a picture. “Oh, I don’t do photos,” he told them, before entertaining a brief conversation with the fan.He also does not enjoy talking about certain aspects of his career, recalling an old quote about the industry: “Acting is like sex — do it, don’t talk about it.'”He said, “People always used to say to me, ‘He has reservations’ or ‘He’s a difficult interviewee.’ Not really!
I love talking about work, about art. What I struggle with, and find unnecessary, and unhelpful about what I want to do, is: ‘Tell me about yourself…’ ”With the success of his movie “Oppenheimer,” raking in nearly $1 billion at the box office, Murphy’s celebrity is burgeoning. “To me, it always seems to go in waves,” the actor said of his fame. “When ‘Peaky [Blinders]’ was at its kind of apex, you’d feel a different energy around, walking around, a little bit like I do now — but then it settles down again,” he said, referencing his former television series. “It kind of comes in waves.
And then you don’t have something in the cinema for ages, and people forget about it. So. It seems to be like that, and you sort of ride that, and then things go back to normal.”However, Murphy, 47, relishes normal and believes it makes him a better actor.“I have a couple of friends who are actors but a majority of them are not,” Murphy explains. “The majority of my buddies are not in the business.
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