Not only is he a brilliant actor, but it seems Cillian Murphy is quite the wingman too.
Today FM host Dermot Whelan has revealed that it’s actually down to his good friend Cillian that he met his wife Corrina.
Dermot and Cillian were out one evening and after spotting her in the pub, decided to put on a bit of a show.
“Me and him go back a long, before he was famous. In fact he introduced me to my wife,” he said on RTE’s Today Show.
“We were going around pubs pretending, just for the craic, that myself and Cillian were poets and we’d go into pubs and start making up really awful poetry on the spot.
“That’s how I met my wife. I pretended to be a poet with Cillian, making up really terrible poems.”
The pair became friends almost two decades ago – just as they began their careers in the spotlight.
As well as his radio career, Dermot has just released a new book Mind Full, which Cillian is also involved in.
Sharing a throwback snap of the pair together, he said, “So delighted that my old pal Cillian will feature in my new book. He has written a wonderful foreword which I can’t wait for you all to read (except the bit where he calls me an average drummer).
“We met 20 years ago on a film set and have been great friends ever since. Excited that we get to share this project and long for the carefree messing of the time this photo was taken!”