{"id":371918,"date":"2026-01-15T19:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371918\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:32:09","slug":"im-a-huge-admirer-and-fan-of-cillian-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371918\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’m a huge admirer and fan of Cillian Murphy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

28 Years Later star Ralph Fiennes has praised Cillian Murphy ahead of the Irish actor’s return to the post-apocalyptic movie franchise.<\/p>\n

Murphy appeared in the first film in the hit series in 2002 playing Jim, a bicycle courier who emerges from a coma to find that the accidental release of a highly contagious, rage-inducing virus has caused the collapse of society.<\/p>\n

Watch: Alan Corr talks to Ralph Fiennes and Chi Lewis Parry<\/p>\n

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There has since been two sequels in the Danny Boyle\/Alex Garland creation, 2007\u2019s 28 Days Later and 2024\u2019s 28 Years Later<\/a>, and now Murphy has returned for the latest instalment, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which is in cinemas from today.<\/p>\n

The new film sees Fiennes, who has previously starred as Voldemort in the Harry Potter franchise, Schindler\u2019s List and Conclave, reprise his role as Kelson, a mysterious doctor who has managed to escape the virus and is now working on a cure.<\/p>\n

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\nJack O’Connell (centre) as Jimmy<\/p>\n

There is a lot going on in the new movie but the big talking point is the return of Oscar-winner Murphy, who has come a long way since the first 28 Days movie nearly a quarter of a century ago.<\/p>\n

Speaking to RT\u00c9 Entertainment, 63-year-old Fiennes said, “Cillian\u2019s amazing. He is one of the great screen actors around today. I am a huge admirer and fan of his and I would love the opportunity to work with him.”<\/p>\n

Details of Murphy\u2019s return are under wraps but in an interview with RT\u00c9 Entertainment last year, director Danny Boyle<\/a> said, “It\u2019s all linked to Cillian and with his agreement, we didn\u2019t connect directly to that first film from 2002.”<\/p>\n

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\nSamson and Kelson<\/p>\n

Boyle added, “Cillian\u2019s character, Jim, will reappear and in fact he will appear at the end of The Bone Temple to take us into the fifth film and that will be his film, really. 28 years have passed and something is the same and something is very different. That\u2019s all I can tell you . . . “<\/p>\n

In last year\u2019s 28 Years Later, we were introduced to a whole new cast, including Alfie Williams as Spike, a teenage boy who escapes his island home off the coast of Northern England to explore the mainland, which is still infested with zombies.<\/p>\n

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which was directed by Nia Dacosta, delves even deeper into the mythic and ritualistic world where the infected have evolved since their initial contamination and begun producing a super strength breed called Alphas.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Spike is drawn deeper into the cruel orbit of the Jimmys, the feral gang of occultists led by Jimmy (Jack O\u2019Connell) and Kelson begins to form a bond with the Alpha, Samson, who is played by former MMA fighter Chi Lewis Parry.<\/p>\n

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Speaking about Kelson and Samson\u2019s relationship, Fiennes says, “At the beginning of the film, Kelson\u2019s interest and curiosity about Samson is as a doctor and a scientist – does this man have the capacity to communicate and have empathy, any connecting communication ability with me. Samson is an infected Alpha male.<\/p>\n

“Then we find out, yes he can communicate and on top of that, he starts to find a friendship in this besieged county that is Britain, which is still gripped by this terrible pandemic.”<\/p>\n

Fiennes added, “People are engorged with rage and suddenly across the divide, between an uninfected and an infected man, you would think there is no possibility but what is happening is thar something inside Samson\u2019s brain is awoken and there is a bonding.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"28 Years Later star Ralph Fiennes has praised Cillian Murphy ahead of the Irish actor’s return to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-371918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}