Cillian Murphy, who has just won the BAFTA for Best Actor for his work in
Oppenheimer
, recalled his participation in a film that many may not remember.
This is
Red
Eye, a film by
Wes Craven
in which he co-stars with
Rachel McAdams
.
Jackson, his character, is a villain that is difficult to forget.
In conversation with GQ, the 47-year-old actor acknowledged that he doesn't actually like the movie that his and Craven's fans remember so fondly.
"
I don't think it's a good movie. It's a good B movie
," he said honestly.
On Rotten Tomatoes, Night Flight has an average of 6.4 points in public votes (more than 250,000 people rated it), which shows that the film is liked more than not.
The film's story proposes a game of cat and mouse in which Murphy plays a hitman who must kill a commissioner.
During a flight, his character mentions his goal to McAdams to ask him to collaborate with him.
If he refuses, he will kill his father.
In Night Flight Murphy is Jackson, a dangerous hitman.
"I love Rachel McAdams and we had fun doing her," Murphy said of her partner.
The actor revealed that he made the film “because of the duality” of her character.
He liked the “double face” of her.
It is worth noting that Craven, the director of the film, is a benchmark of the genre: he directed
Scream
and
Nightmare
, two films that started inexhaustible franchises.
Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams, protagonist and antagonist of Night Flight.
Cillian, popular on the internet
In the following Google Trends graph you can see how the name of the Irish actor was a trend for his sayings about Night Flight.
Cillian on Google Trends.
Surely, his triumph at the British film awards influenced his name to appear among the trends.