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25 August 2006 at 07:45 PM | by Melty_Girl
[Note: This was originally published by cillianONLINE, which has been inactive since September 2006.]
Another Australian profile has appeared in Brisbane's Courier-Mail, again based on an interview done at the Berlinale. Here's some fun excerpts from Helen Barlow's article:
The biggest acting name since Colin Farrell in Ireland and about as different from that actor as chalk is from cheese, Murphy is settled in his personal life but is far more adventurous in his movies. ...During this interview, Murphy, married to installation artist Yvonne McGuinness, squeaks a rubber duck that has been given to him as a present for their baby son. Later it emerges he was hung-over, having flown in some Dublin friends to his new film's Berlin Festival screening.
...Murphy used some fairly outrageous women's clothes for the film, which has been likened to Transamerica in its more humane twist on gender-bending. But, he says, it all came down to the story.
"A lot of the recent gay-themed movies, like Capote and Brokeback Mountain, were inspired by novels and I think that says a lot," he notes. "It's very healthy that in America these themes are being embraced."
Did he try on his wife's underwear to get into the character?
"No I didn't," he responds with a cheesy grin. "You couldn't model it on your wife—that would be weird."
Also from Down Under: a feature on Ken Loach and the British controversy over The Wind That Shakes the Barley in The Australian.
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