{"id":40097,"date":"2026-02-06T05:56:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=40097"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:56:33","slug":"not-for-their-eyes-cillian-murphy-reveals-the-one-movie-genre-he-swore-off-after-becoming-a-father-saying-parenthood-changed-how-he-sees-3-levels-of-violence-on-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=40097","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNot For Their Eyes.\u201d \u2014 Cillian Murphy Reveals the One Movie Genre He Swore Off After Becoming a Father, Saying Parenthood Changed How He Sees 3 Levels of Violence on Screen."},"content":{"rendered":"

For someone who has made a career out of embodying danger, menace, and psychological intensity, Cillian Murphy<\/span><\/span><\/strong> lives by an unexpectedly gentle rule at home: hyper-violent crime stories are strictly banned from his living room.<\/span><\/p>\n

Murphy, best known for playing the razor-sharp gangster Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, has openly admitted that becoming a father fundamentally changed how he views violence on screen. While he can still engage with it as an actor and storyteller, he draws a firm line when it comes to his children, Malachy and Aran. Gangster films, crime thrillers, and stylized brutality are simply \u201cnot for their eyes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes the rule striking is how sharply it contrasts with Murphy\u2019s professional image. For nearly a decade, he fronted one of television\u2019s most brutal series, a show defined by gunfire, razor blades, and moral ambiguity. Yet Murphy has never allowed his sons to watch Peaky Blinders, nor darker films from his past like Red Eye<\/span><\/span><\/strong>. In his words, what once felt like \u201cartistic expression\u201d now registers as imagery that can be genuinely unsettling\u2014or even damaging\u2014for young minds.<\/span><\/p>\n

That shift in perspective was one of several factors behind his decision to move his family from London back to Dublin in 2015. On the surface, Murphy joked that his sons were developing \u201cvery posh English accents.\u201d Beneath the humor, however, was a deeper desire to escape the constant industry buzz and paparazzi culture. Dublin offered something rare for an international star: anonymity, routine, and the freedom to simply be \u201cDad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Murphy has described his approach to parenting as keeping his life in \u201csealed boxes.\u201d Work stays at work. Home stays calm. His children, he says, are \u201csuitably underwhelmed\u201d by his fame\u2014a dynamic he actively protects by keeping violent roles out of family life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Interestingly, Murphy mentally categorizes his projects into three levels of parental caution. At the top is the \u201cnever\u201d box, reserved for hyper-violent, stylized dramas like Peaky Blinders. Next comes the \u201cintense\u201d box, which includes films such as Oppenheimer<\/span><\/span><\/strong> and 28 Days Later<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u2014works his sons have seen but reportedly found overwhelming. Finally, there\u2019s the \u201cartistic\u201d box: quieter, more humane stories that focus on community and character rather than spectacle.<\/span><\/p>\n

After two decades in the spotlight, Murphy\u2019s philosophy is clear. He doesn\u2019t reject violence as an art form\u2014but he refuses to normalize it at home. In doing so, he\u2019s built a life where his most terrifying characters remain safely on screen, and his real legacy is something far quieter: a grounded, peaceful family life in Ireland.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For someone who has made a career out of embodying danger, menace, and psychological intensity, Cillian Murphy lives by an unexpectedly gentle rule at home: hyper-violent crime stories are strictly banned from his living room. Murphy, best known for playing the razor-sharp gangster Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders, has openly admitted that becoming a father…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}