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Actor Cillian Murphy was on a punishing schedule of TV, radio and press interviews plus the usual red carpet meet and greets. Although his publicist claimed he wasn’t pushing Murphy as hard as many of his wards, the 30-year-old looked tired. We put it down to the lunch of beer and battered fish, enough to send anyone to sleep on a sunny afternoon.
Just as Breakfast on Pluto, his latest film, leaves cinemas, the bright-eyed Irishman was in town to promote his new work, The Wind that Shakes the Barley. It’s a tough and provocative film that took the big prize at Cannes this year. Set in the 1920s, it stars Murphy as a young doctor who takes up arms against Britain as Ireland’s civil unrest was born. It’s a long way from Irish Kitty, Pluto’s transvestite terrorist. “Although they both deal with the Troubles, I wouldn?t draw any correlation between them,” he says. “Kitten tries to highlight the absurdity and gets caught up in it, then becomes a transvestite bomber in London.”