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Headline: UNCAPTIONED: Cillian Murphy didn't feel 'good enough' to pursue music career
Caption: In an interview with NME published on Thursday, the Oppenheimer star opened up about his love for Frank Zappa and The Beatles while growing up, which led him to form a band called The Sons of Mr Green Genes with his brother, Páidi, when he was 19. The 47-year-old actor told the publication his band made experimental songs filled with "wacky lyrics and endless guitar solos" and were eventually offered a five-album deal by the London-based label Acid Jazz, which they turned down. "I just never thought that I was good enough really. It's why I haven't, you know, pursued the music either. I like to do one thing quite well." The Peaky Blinders star has previously spoken about his past life as a musician. In 2020, he told Radio 6 Music's Steve Lamacq he believed the music industry to be "treacherous" "All the lads that I was in the band with we're (still) such good friends now, and I don't know if that would have actually stayed the case if we'd have been put through the jaws of the music industry as youngsters. I don't know if we'd have stayed friends," "I know lots of lads that went through that and it was pretty traumatic for them if they didn't make it. So I am happy with my lot, Steve, I can't complain." THIS VIDEO MUST NOT BE EDITED FOR LENGTH TO COMBINE WITH OTHER CONTENT
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