Cillian Murphy stars in ‘Steve’.
Opening in choose theaters on September nineteenth earlier than premiering on Netflix October third is the brand new drama ‘Steve’, which was directed by Tim Mielants and written by Max Porter, primarily based on his novel ‘Shy’.
“A Quiet Storm of Emotion”
Launch Date: Sep 19, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 32 min
The movie stars Oscar winner Cillian Murphy (‘Oppenheimer’), Tracey Ullman (‘Into the Woods’), and Emily Watson (‘Pink Dragon’).
Moviefone lately had the pleasure of talking with Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy about his work on ‘Steve’, his first response to the screenplay and why he wished to make the film, his strategy to the character, working with the solid of younger actors, collaborating with director Tim Mielants on set, and why Tracey Ullman is so humorous.
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Cillian Murphy as Steve in ‘Steve’. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/Neflix © 2025.
Moviefone: To start with, are you able to speak about your first response to the screenplay, and why you wished to make this film?
Cillian Murphy: I’ve a really sturdy friendship with Max Porter, the novelist. In reality, I used to be given the novel in proof kind earlier than it got here out and so we might been speaking about it for a very long time. Max had this concept that he may take the world of the novel and adapt it slightly than adapt it precisely because it was as a result of it was written within the first particular person within the form of stream of consciousness from the perspective of Shy. So, he spun it on its axis to make it extra from Steve’s perspective, but additionally a telling of Shy’s story. So, it was simply reinventing the novella. (I wished to make it) as a result of I feel it is an important story.
Cillian Murphy as Steve (Heart-Proper) in ‘Steve’. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/Netflix © 2025.
MF: Steve is a personality that’s in nice ache, each bodily and emotionally. Are you able to speak about your strategy to taking part in him?
CM: Nicely, I feel he is like the remainder of us. He is simply struggling. He is coping with stuff. He is making an attempt to get via the day. He is below an intense quantity of stress. He is placing different individuals earlier than himself, which isn’t all the time the proper factor to do. I do not know for those who can repair different individuals earlier than you sorted your self. He most likely should not oversee plenty of youngsters, fragile, weak youngsters, as a result of he is so fragile and weak himself. However that is intensely human and I feel that is what I’ve discovered so interesting about him as a result of I like taking part in these characters that wherein we are able to see variations of ourselves, which aren’t all the time good. They’re fairly flawed and contradictory they usually’re simply reaching.
(L to R) Jay Lycurgo as Shy, Cillian Murphy as Steve in ‘Steve’. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/Neflix © 2025.
MF: Are you able to speak about working with the younger actors within the solid and was there plenty of improvisation on set?
CM: There wasn’t that a lot improvisation. I might say it was 95% scripted. They had been wonderful. Lots of them had been actors and some of them had by no means acted earlier than. It was an actual shot within the arm for me to see that vitality and that zeal that that they had for his or her craft, they usually actually grew to become an actual gang. They’re nonetheless an actual gang they usually’re nonetheless in contact they usually’re nonetheless nice buddies. It was genuine and good.
Cillian Murphy (Proper) as Steve in ‘Steve’. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/Netflix
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MF: What was it like collaborating on set with director Tim Mielants?
CM: Nicely, that is my third movie with Tim, so, once more, we’re very shut. We’ve an actual shorthand, an actual understanding and a shared style. We shot the movie chronologically, which is the largest reward you may give to a crew and to a solid, I feel. Since you expertise what’s occurring to the character because the character experiences it, so you are not dancing round making an attempt to retrospectively determine what might have occurred or making an attempt to think about what would’ve occurred sooner or later. You are residing this story because the characters would. As a lot as you are able to do, or it actually helps the method. It is virtually unattainable to attain usually, however we had been simply in a single location, so we had been capable of make use of that.
(L to R) Tracey Ullman as Amanda, Cillian Murphy as Steve in ‘Steve’. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/Neflix © 2025.
MF: Lastly, what was it like working with legendary comedic actress Tracey Ullman and was she humorous on set in between takes?
CM: We all the time have amusing on our units. There’s all the time plenty of laughing and messing round, however Tracye, she’s an icon. She is a comedy legend, however she’s additionally an incredible dramatic actor. She’s very eager to point out that a part of what she will be able to do, and he or she simply completely nailed it within the movie, I feel.
(L to R) Jay Lycurgo as Shy, Simbiatu Ajikawo as Shola in ‘Steve’. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/Neflix © 2025.
What’s the plot of ‘Steve’?
Steve (Murphy) is a headteacher accountable for a faculty for boys with societal and behavioral difficulties.
Who’s within the solid of ‘Steve’?
- Cillian Murphy as Steve
- Tracey Ullman as Amanda
- Jay Lycurgo as Shy
- Simbi Ajikawo as Shola
- Emily Watson as Jenny
‘Steve’ premieres on Netflix October third.
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