Why did Cillian Murphy's career go straight down the shitter?

Because as he aged Miss Cillian started to looka more like a man.

Lesbian

Hardly in the shitter. Is Peaky Blinders still on?

Because he's creepy and looks like a walking skull.

He's one of those guys who's pretty, yet still odd looking.

Sorry not sorry... He looks psycho. Scary eyes and pursed lips. Hard pass. I’m not surprised.

“Cillian” sounds like a nasal disease and too much like “villain”.

He's young, talented and seems to have a lot of charisma. Maybe hung too. Far from the shitter for now.

Always seemed creepy.

The OP is an idiot. His career is doing just fine.

Just wasted a couple of hours watching "Anna" from last year with him and Luke Evans and some unknown woman who played a model/assassin. Oh, and Helen Mirren, slumming. Totally horrible. If that's what he's doing these days, his career is definitely in the shitter. Peaky Blinders has been unwatchable for several years.

When he started morphing into Joni Ernst.

The writing was on the wall when he auditioned to play Batman and Noland instead cast him as the Scarecrow. He hasn't done badly since, nor has he done particularly well.

*Nolan

Androgynous face

Small dick in 28 days later (but you never know he may be a grower)

Lack of leading man appeal

And last but not least, cuz he's a GINGER!

BTW r7 it's pronounced KILL-ee-en

Not having read previous responses, I suspect his career is not just successful?, but precisely where he wants it.

I was really impressed with him in "Anthropoid." That was really a good movie, if hard to to watch, due to the subject matter.

He’s had a steady television series and seems guaranteed a supporting role whenever Christopher Nolan makes a movie. It doesn’t make him a huge star, but that’s a pretty good fate for an actor, especially since Murphy was never A-list to begin with.

He absolutely loathes fame and publicity, and IIRC, he once gave an interview where he more or less admitted that although he first got into acting on a whim (because it looked interesting and fun), now that he has an "video instillation artist" (whatever that is) wife and two kids to raise, he's doing it just for that reason.

I thought his wife was a scientist.

He jogged by me in Hampstead once. Simon Amstell walked by in the same five minute period. Murphy is tiny.

[QUOTE] When he started morphing into Joni Ernst.

😂😂😂 Haven’t laughed that hard in days.

He didn't suck the right dick.

He aged badly before finding himself a daddy.

I watched Red Eye again the other night. Such a good movie and he’s terrific in it. He’s handsome and talented enough to have been a major A-lister. Maybe he was too pretty or acted like a dick on sets.

[quote] He absolutely loathes fame and publicity,

What a surprising career choice, then.

He was born to be a character actor because his looks are too striking (beautiful) to be a leading man. He may not become an A-list star, but he will enjoy a long acting career, if he desires.

I think he's had the career he wanted. Doesn't seem like the type who's looking to head the next Marvel franchise. All interviews I've seen with him suggest an intelligent, grounded person (for an actor). Also he's gorgeous, if unconventional looking. No I'm not his PR agent. I just happen to think he's talented and fuckable.

If he had the career he wanted, he wouldn't have even auditioned to play Batman. He accepted hitting the ceiling gracefully.

He has all the parts to be utterly gorgeous, and yet somehow they don't work together. He looks creepy AF.

He still looks really good. Just not pretty anymore.

I love him in "28 Days Later", and I think he's in "A Quite Place 2" If that ever is released.

R28 agreed

He seems attached to that '90s hairstyle at r27. It doesn't really do anything for him.

[quote]He absolutely loathes fame and publicity / What a surprising career choice, then.

I disagree. In Joel Schumacher's (great) interview with Vulture he talked about working with Julia Roberts and how she was gutted when a friend of hers sold a story about her to the tabloids and she said she didn't want that kind of fame but Schumacher realized one can't decide how much fame you want or get. I don't think the majority of actors go into the business wanting fans stalking them or trying to hack their accounts or digging through their trash. They want the money and the perks but not to lose their privacy. Murphy plays it wisely. He works and he promotes what he needs, when he needs but that's it. You don't see him photographed at parties or on the red carpet or on pap strolls. He even left London to return back to Ireland to raise his kids. He's not chasing fame. He's just a jobbing actor.

He doesn't like discussing acting, I've found but he loves discussing music. He was hosting a show on Radio 4 for a stretch filling in for the DJ.