Max Porter: 'The fact that Cillian Murphy is not a dick really helps. He's a person of deep integrity'

""It's become something of an artistic bromance, one that has yielded a stage play, an arts festival, and now a critically acclaimed feature film, Steve.""

""When pressed, however, celebrated author Max Porter is unequivocal when I ask just what it is about Cillian Murphy that makes them dovetail so well.""

""Without casting aspersions on anyone else," Porter says of the Cork Oscar-winner, "I just think the fact he's not a dick really helps. He's not a show off, and he can't do artificiality because he's a person of deep integrity. So I admire and love that about him.""

Max Porter and Cillian Murphy have developed a close creative partnership that has produced a stage play, an arts festival, and the feature film Steve, adapted from Shy. The film has received critical acclaim. Porter credits Murphy's humility, refusal to show off, and inability to be artificial as central to their compatibility. Porter expresses clear admiration and affection for Murphy and highlights Murphy's deep integrity. A promotional note also mentions daily word puzzles called Focail and Conundrum.

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