‘Oppenheimer’ star Cillian Murphy rips his 2005 film ‘Red Eye’: ‘Not a good movie’
nypost.com“Oppenheimer” star Cillian Murphy rips into his 2005 movie “Red Eye” in GQ magazine’s latest March cover story.“I love Rachel McAdams and we had fun making it,” Murphy told GQ. “But I don’t think it’s a good movie.
It’s a good B movie.”In the psychological thriller, directed by Wes Craven, Murphy plays Jackson Rippner, who’s seated next to Lisa Reisert (McAdams) on a red-eye flight from Dallas to Miami — and whose evil terrorist intentions are revealed once the plane takes off when he tells her he’s going to assassinate the US deputy head of Homeland Security.“When I was a younger actor, I was really, really hard on everything that I was in,” said Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”).
I hated watching myself. I hated looking at myself on-screen.“I remember when I saw [‘Red Eye’] It was like, ‘Oh, that’s kind of a schlocky B movie.’ Rachel McAdams is excellent in it,” he said. “But I didn’t think I gave a very nuanced performance in it.“But listen, if people love the movie then that’s great,” he went on. “I’m pleased with that.
I’m less hard on myself now when I look at stuff.“I’m less hypercritical of my work. But that’s probably a hangover from that, to be honest.”But, he added, there was one element about his role in “Red Eye” that caught his attention.“I think it’s the duality of it.
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