Cold and calculist? This is the most eccentric film of Cillian Murphy’s career – Film News

The Oscar winner starred in the Irish drama released in the 2000s.

After more than 20 years building a celebrated career in cinema, Cillian Murphy won the Oscar for Best Actor for Oppenheimer. But long before becoming the father of the atomic bomb, or giving life to the emblematic gangster Thomas Shelby in the series Peaky Blinders, he took risks in several roles that demonstrate his versatility.

In 2005, in the first years of his career as an actor, Cillian played one of his most sensitive characters and outside his comfort zone. He plays Kitten Braden, a trans woman, in the comedy-drama Breakfast on Pluto. Directed by Irishman Neil Jordan, also responsible for Interview with the Vampire, the film adapts the book of the same name by Patrick McCabe.

Even though it was not well received by specialized critics at the time, Café da Manhã em Pluto gained, over the years, the title of “cult classic”. At the beginning of the 2000s, it was still a huge taboo to place a transgender character at the center of the narrative. Furthermore, the film also addresses important and controversial political issues, such as “The Troubles”, the Conflicts in Northern Ireland.

Cillian Murphy won an Irish Film and Television Awards and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor. In addition to him, Liam Neeson, Ruth Negga and Brendan Gleeson are also in the cast.

What is the story of Breakfast on Pluto?

The result of an affair between a maid and a priest, Patricia “Kitten” Braden (Cillian Murphy) was abandoned by her biological mother shortly after her birth. After years of being repressed in a small Irish town, she leaves for London in search of a new life and also to reunite with her mother. Hitching a ride with a rock band, she becomes involved in personal dramas and the consequences of the turbulent political times in Ireland.

Breakfast on Pluto is available at Amazon Prime Videobut only for purchase or rent.

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