‘Oppenheimer’ Stars Cillian Murphy & Matt Damon Talk Reteam On Berlin Opener ‘Small Things Like These’, How They Met & That One Thing A Future Collaboration Would Require: Q&A
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Passing the time between Oppenheimer takes in a New Mexico bunker one morning at about 4am, Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon sowed the seeds of a future collaboration.
Fast-forward to today, and Small Things Like These is opening the Berlin Film Festival. Murphy stars in and produced Small Things Like These alongside his Big Things Films partner Alan Moloney.
Damon is also a producer – his and Ben Affleck’s Artists Equity financed the film that’s based on Claire Keegan’s acclaimed novel and was adapted for the screen by Enda Walsh.
Tim Mielants directs. Though it deals with a serious subject matter, the road to making the movie was “blissful,” and married “kismet” with “serendipity,” Damon and Murphy told me recently in a conversation that also touched on how Artists Equity acts as “facilitator” and not “babysitter” (according to Murphy, it also has an “undervalued superpower”), the importance of trust and whether or not the mutually admiring duo will work together again. (See more below) In Small Things Like These, Murphy plays a devoted family man who discovers the local convent is in fact a cruel institution that takes in so-called ‘fallen girls and women.’ This revelation forces him to confront some hard truths about the convent, his hometown — and his own life.
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