“We had a great catch up. And a Bloody Mary. Or two,” Neill joked in his Instagram caption of himself and newly minted Oscar winner Murphy
Sam Neill welcomes a major milestone in Cillian Murphy’s career!
The Jurassic Park star, 76, spent some time with his Pointed glasses Costar Murphy, 47, after the latter won best actor at Sunday’s 2024 Academy Awards, marking his first Academy Award.
To celebrate, Neill took to Instagram to share a photo of the pair smiling at the restaurant, with two Bloody Marys — and Murphy’s shiny new Oscar statuette! — placed on the table in front of them.
“OSCAR! Here’s my friend #CillianMurphy next day with Gold Fella, me too,” Neill wrote in the caption. “I couldn’t be more delighted, as you can see. So deserved.”
“We had a great catch up. And a Bloody Mary. Or two,” he joked. “What an actor, what a performance and what a movie #Oppenheimer.”
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Sam Neill and Cillian Murphy inside Pointed glasses.
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Neill appeared opposite Murphy’s crime boss character Tommy Shelby as Chief Inspector/Major Chester Campbell in the first two seasons Pointed glassesfrom 2013 to 2014.
About their scenes together in the hit BBC crime drama – which begins in 1919, just after the First World War – Murphy told Belfast Telegraph in September 2014 that he considered them a “big problem” to record.
“He’s a good friend and I love him very much, but we have this hatred in those scenes, so you go from hanging out and laughing to deep creepiness,” the actor said. “He’s such an obnoxious character, but you can’t help but love him.”
Murphy is undoubtedly still riding high from his big win on Sunday for his portrayal of the morally conflicted father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, in Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster 2023. Oppenheimer.
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Cillian Murphy accepts the award for Best Actor at the 96th Academy Awards on March 19, 2024 in Hollywood, California.
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Speaking to reporters in the press room afterwards, Murphy revealed he was still in a “daze” after winning the award and admitted he couldn’t remember his acceptance speech.
“It’s a bit – I am [in] kind of giddy, you know,” Murphy said. “I am very devastated. I am very humbled. I am very grateful. And you know, I’m very proud to be – to be an Irishman standing here today.”
Murphy also revealed that if people only remember him for his role in Nolan’s film, he would be “very pleased”. (He and the director, 53, have collaborated several times over the past 20 years, including in 2005 Batman beginsin 2010 Beginning and in 2017 Dunkirk, although Oppenheimer marks his first starring role in a Nolan film.)
“You have to move forward, but this was a big, big moment for me,” he said. “The film is so special to me and Chris and I have such a special relationship that I feel very privileged to continue working with him.”
“This is a film that’s provocative and it’s questioning and it’s challenging, but yet so many people want to see it,” added Murphy. “So I’m really, really proud of that.”
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