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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 after that surreal awards season – Netflix’s new drama, Steve.

He plays the titular character, a harried but deeply committed headteacher of a last-chance school for boys with behavioural difficulties.

It’s inspired by Max Porter’s best-selling novella Shy, which Porter matter-of-factly tells me is ‘unfilmable’ as is, because it’s based in the head of troubled music-lover Shy (played in the film with beautiful rawness by Jay Lycurgo).

‘I just immediately binned any idea of

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