Believe it or not, but not too long ago, Cillian Murphy didn’t quite understand what a meme was. A gap in popular culture that the 47-year-old actor was finally able to fill thanks to the phenomenon Barbenheimer.
A great diversion triggered by the combined successes of barbie And Oppenheimer at the box office this summer and which gave rise to a multitude of memes involving the star of Peaky Blinders as well as Margot Robbie, who met during cross interviews.
“Now I know what a meme is,” assured Variety Cillian Murphy who, in a 2017 interview, admitted to not knowing what a meme was. “I even know there are memes about me not knowing what a meme is. » A meta-meme which, in any case, fascinates Margot Robbie a lot!
The “Inception” of the meme
“It’s a good meme. It’s a meme within a meme. It’s a bit like the Inception memes,” exclaimed Margot Robbie in reference to the Christopher Nolan film in which Cillian Murphy already played.
Moreover, the 33-year-old actress is not entirely sure she knew what a meme was before that, and both admit to facing quite a generational gap. “I think it was kids who started all this, right? And now it’s becoming this sort of self-eating meme,” Cillian Murphy continued. “I’m aware of it, but it’s mostly because people send them to me or show them to me. »
And in their defense, we must admit that this meme is taking on gargantuan proportions, since a real film Barbenheimer is in preparation.