Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

Got a great one for you this week with Academy Award winner Killian Murphy.

You probably know him best as the lead in the 2023 blockbuster Oppenheimer in which he played

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. Of course, that movie made like a billion

dollars at the box office was paired. You'll remember that summer with the Barbie movie,

the Barbinheimer phenomenon. He starred in that film that won an armful of Academy

Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Christopher Nolan, and Best Actor for Killian

Murphy himself. Killian and Christopher Nolan have been working together for 20 years on the

Batman movies, on Inception. They have this really cool professional partnership.

He's from Ireland. He doesn't do a lot of interviews. Kind of a mild-mannered guy,

absolutely unimpressed and not caught up with the Hollywood thing. Doesn't live anywhere near

Los Angeles. You'll hear him talk about how little things change for him after the Academy

Award. He just likes to do good work and live his life quietly. And we kind of get into why he

thinks that's actually so important. So I won't go through his whole IMDB page with you because we

talk about it, but kind of had his breakout with 28 days later more than 20 years ago.

Such a fascinating guy. Now sitting down with me to talk about his new Netflix film called

Steve that has people talking about Academy Awards again. He is Steve in this movie. It's a story of a

dedicated but troubled himself, reform school teacher in the United Kingdom back in the 90s.

Him sort of managing this group of boys while going through his own stuff as well.

Follows him through this frenetic day in his own life.

It's an incredible, beautiful movie.

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