Cillian Murphy on his new Netflix film ‘Steve’
The Treatment
KCRW
4.6 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with Oscar winning actor Cillian Murphy about his new Netflix film Steve, in which he plays the titular role of a struggling teacher working with kids at a reform school. Then, writer Tim Deegan stops by to talk about his new book Saving Rocky Horror: From Orphan to Icon. And on The Treat, Oscar nominated costume designer Arianne Philips gives Rocky Horror her own shoutout.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
| 0:06.6 | It's the Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. The last time we spoke to the actor Killian Murphy, |
| 0:12.6 | he had yet to gain the eight pounds of carrying the Academy Award winner for his performance |
| 0:18.0 | in the film. Oppenheimer, he is again reunited with people he's worked with in the past. For his new film for Netflix, it's the film Steve, and he's working with the director and a writer he's worked with in the past. First of all, Killingen, it's good to have you back. Thank you for doing this. Yeah, pleasure. And you've worked with Max Porter before, have you? not the writer, who's adapted to his novel? |
| 0:38.3 | Yeah, this is our third piece of work together. |
| 0:41.1 | We made a stage adaptation of his novel, small things like these, and we made a film for the Manchester International Festival. |
| 0:51.1 | And we're really, really good friends as well, as all of that. |
| 0:54.9 | Well, I mean, I know from the novel, grief is the thing with feathers and certainly for |
| 0:58.5 | shy as well. He has a way of sort of dealing with, kind of dealing with PTSD in real time, |
| 1:04.0 | people dealing with shattering, emotional grief, trying to get through regular days. |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah, that's very much my wheelhouse. |
| 1:15.9 | Well, he's written three novels about, you know, boys, boyhood, |
| 1:21.8 | Greaves Sting with Feathers, Lanny and Shai. |
| 1:24.5 | And Shai was the novel that we decided to adapt, |
| 1:30.9 | and it's kind of potentially an unadaptable you know novel but max decided to spin the novel on its access and tell the story from the |
| 1:37.9 | point of view of the head teacher and then overlay it with this with shy a story that we see in the novel, |
| 1:45.3 | and just kind of adapt the world of the novel rather than the novel itself. |
| 1:50.3 | Yeah, because it certainly expands it, but in a weird way, it makes it more about shy, |
| 1:54.6 | because he sort of woven through it, and it becomes more and more about him. |
| 1:59.7 | But I also sort of see how he and Steve are in a lot of ways very much alike. |
| 2:04.7 | Yeah, I think they're kind of two sides of the same coin, really, and we see how, you know, |
| 2:13.0 | separate events kind of precipitate this breakdown that they're both experiencing over the course of these |
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