Liam Cunningham: 'You walk into the room and you can see Cillian has something special'

As he stars in new Netflix series, 3 Body Problem, Liam Cunningham tells Esther McCarthy about working with the Cork actor, and reuniting with his Game of Thrones producers

Liam Cunningham in Netflix series 3 Body Problem.

Cillian Murphy was just 22 when he landed the role of ‘Pat the Barman’ in Irish drama Sweety Barrett.One of his co-stars in that 1988 movie was Liam Cunningham, who noticed the young Cork actor’s natural talent back in those early days. Like many of his peers, Cunningham was rooting for Murphy at the Oscars as he made history on cinema’s greatest world stage.

“I've done three movies with Cillian,” says Cunningham, just days before the Oscars take place. “One of his first early movies was Sweeney Barrett that myself and Brendan Gleeson are in. He played a barman, he’d a tiny little part.