Cillian Murphy Explains His Character's Recorder Habit In Netflix's 'Steve'
Oct 15, 2026
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The whole time I was trying to figure out,
like, why he wanted to record himself.
So I was wondering what you thought his reasoning behind recording
himself was and what it meant to him to hear himself back.
It's a sort of a, it's to soothe himself, really.
You know, he just doesn't have enough time
in the day to do these things.
So it's like what we do nowadays,
making notes on our phones or whatever.
That's his version of doing it.
But the results are practical.
He's trying to bring Shola up to speed.
He's one of these people that just never has time to do anything.
he's always behind behind behind behind making
this making this making this making notes making
notes so it was a really good device for a character yeah
and i wrote down the last thing
he says on his recorder is like is it's enough isn't it
that's like one of the last lines of
i thought that was really beautiful
so i was wondering what that meant to you when it came
to what was going on with steve that's really interesting
because a few people have asked me
like what would you say to yourself in 1996
and because I was starting off as an actor in 96 and
I think that thing
of like just it's enough you know you're good enough don't don't beat
yourself up yeah you know be kind to yourself I think
that's that's what it feels like to me

