Over the weekend, Cillian Murphy spoke about his brief time in a Cork based band in the 1990s.
The Irish actor chatted this during his recent guest appearance on the BBC's Graham Norton Show, where he explained how his band The Sons of Mr Green Genes turned down the chance to sign a five album deal.
Murphy appeared on the sofa, alongside fellow Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson, as well as singer Taylor Swift, US actor Greta Lee, English actor Jodie Turner-Smith, as well as singer Lewis Capaldi, who appeared as the musical guest.
“We were kids and we got offered this record deal", Murphy told Norton. "My brother [Páidi] was in the band, and he was only 18. My parents went ‘no’. They wouldn't let him ruin his life. So they allowed me to go and potentially ruin [mine], but then we all just disbanded, and it didn't happen".
Norton also showed a photo of Murphy's band from the 1990s, which was taken at a bus station in Cork City.
Taylor Swift who sat beside Murphy on the night, praised the actor's children, Malachy 18, and Aran 17, whom she met after the Oscars in March.
“They were delightful, your sons are the future of our world. They were such great conversationalists; they were interesting and interested. That’s a great accomplishment", Swift said.
The Peaky Blinders star added: “We were at the party, I had the whole gang, my family and my kids. I don’t think my kids were legally allowed to be there, really".
Elsewhere, Cillian Murphy also spoke about his latest project, Steve, which premiered last month. The movie is based on Max Porter's best selling book, and directed by Tim Mielants.
“Max and me are pals, and he gave me the proof of the book. I was very lucky to read it before it came out. It's like this beautiful, compassionate piece of work, but it's all inside of [protagonist] Shy’s head. It's like a stream of consciousness from inside his character's head.”
“I thought: ‘Well, some books shouldn't be adapted’. And then we'd made two pieces of work together, and then we were trying to figure out what to do next. And then he had this brilliant idea to kind of spin the story on its axis, and to adapt the world of the book, rather than the book itself", he added.
“So there was this minor character in it, who was Steve. It all happens over 24 hours. It began to show what happens over that day through Steve's eyes, and then overlay it with Shy’s".
“Steve is a very overworked, underpaid, quite broken, trying to do the right thing, headmaster of a kind of reform school in the 90s in Britain".
Murphy also confirmed that the new Peaky Blinders movie, The Immortal Man is to premiere next year.
Last month, the actor also picked The Beatles 'Abbey Road' as his favourite album of all time. More on this here.
