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It seemed to work on camera. And there's very few films - because you make a lot of films and you meet people and you work very intensely and intimately and then you're gone - but there's a few where you actually make friends, and this [The Fall] was one.

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Cillian Murphy
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 25
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