Los Angeles, March 20 – Hollywood star Cillian Murphy is very particular about his bedtime. The actor has shared that he likes to think about going to bed at 5:30 pm because he enjoys getting a good night's sleep.
The star of 'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man' has spoken about his love of sleep and admitted that he starts thinking about going to bed at least four hours before he retires, according to 'Female First UK'.
During an appearance on the SmartLess podcast, he said, "I do start thinking about bed from, yeah, about half past five. Yeah, that is, that is true. I mean, I'm just thinking about it. Yeah, yeah, you know, but I will be approaching. I'll be in bed by like half nine, right?".
The star of 'Oppenheimer' went on to reveal that his love of sleep is disrupted whenever he takes on a theatre role because he has to work in the evenings, and he confessed that he struggles with insomnia after performing.
He shared, "What I did find (when doing theatre). I could not sleep after it. I could not go to sleep. It was like being thrown out of a helicopter. I could not sleep"
According to 'Female First UK', the actor admitted that he used to enjoy socializing with friends after his plays finished late at night, but he no longer does that and now finds himself with nothing to do when he finishes performing and can't sleep.
He said, "I think when I was younger, I would always be up for the, like: 'Come back to the dressing room and we'll have a drink and we'll go out'. Then as I got older, I just couldn't fake it, I think, any longer. Yeah. And then, but equally, I couldn't sleep. So I didn't know what to do. Like, I didn't [want to] go for a long walk, have a bath. I didn't want to go to the pub. Sit alone drinking, not a good idea. I didn't know what to do".
In addition to swapping the pub for early nights, Cillian also opened up about his healthy lifestyle as a vegetarian, but admitted that he only stopped eating meat when he met his wife Yvonne out of "convenience".
He said, "I met my wife when I was 20, and she's been a vegetarian all her life. So I kind of became a vegetarian then. It was more out of convenience than of any real sort of, opposition to it (eating meat). But now I do do it because I don't really want to eat animals".