Cillian Murphy on A Quiet Place Part II and his beginnings in Cork

'I felt fearless doing Disco Pigs,' says the actor, 45, as he looks back over his storied career 
Cillian Murphy on A Quiet Place Part II and his beginnings in Cork

Cillian Murphy in A Quiet Place Part II.

Cillian Murphy, star of the new horror sequel A Quiet Place Part II, is something to behold: X-ray eyes at once penetrating and ethereally blue, cheekbones so pronounced you could stretch out and go to sleep on them. Unfortunately, the beholding will have to wait. We have barely exchanged greetings over Zoom when his voice breaks up, the screen freezes and the room falls silent. A quiet place, indeed.

We switch to phones. We can do this, I tell him. “I have faith,” he replies, in a soothing Cork accent that compensates for the lack of visuals. Murphy’s gift for intensity has made him a natural fit for characters damaged (Dunkirk, The Edge of Love) or outright villainous (Batman Begins, Red Eye), but today he is quick to laugh and keen to talk. 

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