Cillian Murphy may have clinched the Oscar for best actor thanks to Oppenheimer in 2024, but it didn’t stop him from taking a ‘completely different’ approach to his preparation for the film he shot ...

He instead brings headteacher Steve – only briefly mentioned in the book – to the forefront and ‘built a person’ to be played by Murphy, a previous collaborator on projects including the stage ...

Steve is a bristling British drama set at a boys’ reform school in 1996, with fists flying, the institution’s future in jeopardy, and the title character – Cillian Murphy’s head teacher – drowning in ...