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Cillian Murphy Talks ‘Small Things Like These’ & What He’s Learned As A Producer: “Challenge Everything & Be True To Your Instinct”
Small Things Like These is a next step in Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy's trajectory; here we discuss the film and his role as producer
The Tim Mielants-directed drama opened the Berlin Film Festival in February to great acclaim, with Emily Watson ’s turn as a formidable nun scooping the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Actress. In the 1985-set film, Murphy stars as Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and devoted father who discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent — and uncovers truths of his own — forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church. But for me it’s really being strong on the vision that you had initially when you sat down and said, “Why don’t we do this?,” because I think over the course of taking a film from an idea to a script to pre-production to production to post to releasing, it can sometimes get diluted, and then it becomes either one thing or the other.
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