The Oppenheimer star wants to explore social issues in his work but insisted that doesn\u2019t mean his films won\u2019t be entertaining too.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cGiven the state of the world, it would be nice to make work that is entertaining but also kind of stimulating or provocative.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cillian can next be seen in Steve, in which he plays the titular man, a headmaster at a school for troubled boys in the 1990s. He said he found it \u201cvery exposing\u201d because the character was close to who he is.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cFor example, Tommy Shelby, you gotta get the suit on, you do the voice, you do the cigarette, you do the walk.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a huge amount of work to become this [gangster] who I don\u2019t share any DNA with.<\/p>\n
Whereas Max [Porter] had written [Steve] for me, and we know each other so well that it\u2019s written in my vernacular. It was very, very exposing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nearly all of Cillian\u2019s family were teachers, and he has \u201chuge respect\u201d for the profession.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt kind of never stops, being a teacher. I just lived it as a kid with my parents. I have huge respect for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Peaky Blinders star\u2019s dad Brendan eventually became a primary school inspector, and had to visit the establishment his son was attending.<\/p>\n
Cillian laughed: \u201cHe was coming in and I was the one that was being thrown out of school all the time. So that was an interesting phase in our lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just a terrible messer, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oppenheimer star wants to explore social issues in his work but insisted that doesn\u2019t mean his films…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10703,12596,9539,4527,156,12469,12597,111,139,69,10538,5415,61,4524,12598],"class_list":["post-10096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-characters","tag-cillian","tag-content","tag-doesnt","tag-entertainment","tag-interest","tag-murphy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-play","tag-playing","tag-to","tag-want","tag-zero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}