{"id":130822,"date":"2025-10-18T20:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/130822\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:56:08","slug":"cillian-murphy-praises-halldor-laxness-independent-people-as-a-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/130822\/","title":{"rendered":"Cillian Murphy Praises Halld\u00f3r Laxness\u2019 Independent People as a Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"472\">Irish actor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cillian_Murphy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cillian Murphy<\/a> has described Independent People, the classic novel by Icelandic Nobel laureate <a class=\"decorated-link cursor-pointer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Halld%C3%B3r_Laxness\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-start=\"198\" data-end=\"267\" target=\"_blank\">Halld\u00f3r Laxness<\/a>, as a \u201cmagnificent work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"472\">Speaking on Jack Edwards\u2019 podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/inklings-book-club\/id1835963247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Inklings Book Club<\/a>, Murphy said he was so captivated by the story that he read half of it in one sitting during a transatlantic flight.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"472\">The actor revealed that it was English author Max Porter who first recommended the novel to him, suggesting he needed \u201can exciting and not superficial piece of work.\u201d Porter believed Laxness\u2019 1934\u201335 epic, which explores the struggles and stubborn independence of Icelandic farmers, would resonate with Murphy.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cMagnificent Work\u201d <img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Halldor Laxness and his wife \" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\"  nitro-lazy- nitro-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/cdn-iledajj.nitrocdn.com\/gBpkBZuWmuTPLijVswKIFuVVZqKvDjAj\/assets\/images\/optimized\/rev-41f61fc\/www.icelandreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/324887380_504457845209369_1167438534177953931_n-1024x700.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-171307 nitro-lazy\" decoding=\"async\" nitro-lazy-empty=\"\" id=\"MTY4ODoxNzk5-1\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;nitro-empty-id=MTY4ODoxNzk5-1;base64,PHN2ZyB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMTAyNCA3MDAiIHdpZHRoPSIxMDI0IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjcwMCIgeG1sbnM9Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cudzMub3JnLzIwMDAvc3ZnIj48L3N2Zz4=\"\/>Halldor Laxness and his wife. Photo: Glj\u00fafrasteinn \/ Laxness Museum <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"472\">\u201cIt\u2019s such an amazing book. I just couldn\u2019t put it down,\u201d Murphy said. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@jack_edwards\/video\/7562147751224675586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">watch the full clip here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1054\" data-end=\"1278\">Murphy, best known for portraying Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders, has long expressed a deep interest in literature. In 2023, Murphy won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer, further cementing his reputation as one of the most accomplished actors of his generation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1054\" data-end=\"1278\">\u201cLaxness\u2019 writing is extraordinary,\u201d Murphy added. \u201cIt\u2019s one of those works that stays with you.\u201d (Interestingly enough, Halld\u00f3r Laxness\u2019 middle name is actually \u2018Kiljan,\u2019 prompting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visir.is\/g\/20252790940d\/cillian-maerir-kiljan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">V\u00edsir headline<\/a> \u2018Cillian Praises Kiljan.\u2019)<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish actor Cillian Murphy has described Independent People, the classic novel by Icelandic Nobel laureate Halld\u00f3r Laxness, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[359,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-130822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}