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Rubber ducky, version 2

31 August 2006 at 08:08 PM | by Melty_Girl

[Note: This was originally published by cillianONLINE, which has been inactive since September 2006.]

Australian journalist Helen Barlow, whose recent piece in the Courier-Mail mentioned that Cillian squeaked a rubber ducky baby toy during her interview with him in Berlin, is back with another version of the story in the Sidney Morning Herald. Her lead sounds as adoring as something one of us might write:

With blue translucent eyes that dazzle the camera like few others, Cillian Murphy can portray a brooding sensitivity yet be romantic, loveable and downright horrible. He's the hottest acting talent to come out of Ireland since Colin Farrell and he has a lot more range.

Barlow goes on to ask Cillian about The Wind That Shakes the Barley and Australian actor Rose Byrne:

"The fallout from the war of independence and the civil war still resonates today and you realise what side your family was on," Murphy says.

"When my grandfather was playing music with a lot of his buddies underneath a tree and then the Black and Tans [British troops] came along and shot at them randomly, the bullet went into the tree. If he'd been a better marksman I might have not been here. I had a cousin who was killed. Cork was the most militarised area of the country and the rebellion was strongest there."

...During our interview, Murphy squeaks a rubber duck given to him as a present for his baby son. He is hung over, having brought over a gaggle of his mates from Dublin to the Berlin Film Festival. They had rung up quite a bill at his swanky hotel—to the dismay of the Hollywood honchos, who are trying to get him to talk to the press.

Murphy's next big movie is the sci-fi epic Sunshine, in which he is sent to reignite the dying sun. He co-stars with Australia's Rose Byrne. Is there any hanky-panky going on?

"I'm not gonna tell you, but she's brilliant, though. I love Rose. She's a fantastic actress."