Cillian Murphy has revealed Chrostopher Nolan personally delivers all of his film scripts on special paper that can’t be photocopied.
The actor, 47, took on the lead role in Christopher’s blockbuster Oppenheimer which has earned him a Best Actor nomination at this year’s Academy Awards.
It was the fifth time Cillian and Christopher have worked together with the film star revealing the director’s personal approach to giving out his screenplays.
He flew to Ireland to hand the actor the script personally, with Cillian reading all 197 pages immediately.
Speaking to GQ Magazine, he said: ‘So, like, it’s been his mum who’s delivered the script to me before. Or his brother; he’ll go away and come back in three hours.
Cillian Murphy has revealed Chrostopher Nolan personally delivers all of his film scripts on special paper that can’t be photocopied
The actor, 47, took on the lead role in Christopher’s blockbuster Oppenheimer which has earned him a Best Actor nomination at this year’s Academy Awards (Christopher and Cillian pictured in February 2024)
‘Part of it has to do with keeping the story secret before it goes out. But part of it has to do with tradition.
‘They’ve always done it this way, so why stop now? It does add a ritual to it, which I really appreciate. It suits me.’
Cillian also told how Christopher had already called him about playing J. Robert Oppenheimer in the film and he’d said yes before reading the script.
The actor also described what it’s like working with the acclaimed director, describing his sets as like an ‘intimate laboratory’.
He said:’Even though he works at a tremendous pace, there’s always room for curiosity and finding things out, and that’s what making art should be about, you know? There’s no phones—but also no announcement: everybody just knows.
‘And there’s no chairs. Because he doesn’t sit down. Sometimes a film set can be like a picnic.
‘Everyone’s got their chairs and their snacks and everyone’s texting and showing each other f*****g, you know, emojis or whatever, memes which I do know, but why?’
Elsewhere during the interview, Cillian told how he tries to do just one film a year and doesn’t mind being ‘unemployed’ while waiting for the right project to come along.
Christopher flew to Ireland to hand the actor the script personally, with Cillian reading all 197 pages immediately (Cillian pictured in Oppenheimer)
The March issue of British GQ is available via digital download and on newsstands on February 27th
He said: ‘I have a couple of friends who are actors but a majority of them are not. The majority of my buddies are not in the business. I also love not working.
‘And I think for me a lot of research as an actor is just f*****g living, and, you know, having a normal life doing regular things and just being able to observe, and be, in that sort of lovely flow of humanity.
‘If you can’t do that because you’re going from film festival to movie set to promotions…I mean that’s The Bubble.
‘I’m not saying that makes you any better or less as an actor, but it’s just a world that I couldn’t exist in. I find it would be very limiting on what you can experience as a human being, you know?’
The March issue of British GQ is available via digital download and on newsstands on February 27th.
