Tom Blyth has apologised after he accidentally called Cillian Murphy a “British icon”.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes actor made the comment during a Burberry show last month, where he was asked which British icon he’d like to see for the luxury brand.
He answered Murphy, who is actually Irish, leading to a backlash – including from a few Irish stars – and Blyth has now shared his regret in a new interview.
“Firstly, I’m so sorry to you and your people,” he told The Standard. “I’ve nothing but respect for the Irish and I love Cillian Murphy. I was so embarrassed — I was so jetlagged that I didn’t listen to the question properly and I just blurted it out.
“Oh my God, Cillian Murphy is never going to want to work with me,” he joked. “I genuinely was knackered and just not listening properly. I’ve learned my lesson. Next time, critically hearing is an important thing.”
Blyth was then told he may be allowed to Murphy’s home city of Cork after the apology, quipping: “We’ll see – maybe a little while longer.”
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Blyth is perhaps best known for playing the young Coriolanus Snow in Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, and most recently starred in drama thriller Plainclothes.
Murphy recently appeared in Netflix drama Steve, and is due to reprise his role of Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders film The Immortal Man as well as Jim in the next 28 Years Later film The Bone Temple.
Meanwhile, the Oscar-winning star recently revealed to NME that his favourite album of all time is The Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’.
“When I was very young… I we used to go to the city library and actually rent cassettes,” Murphy shared. “And I remember renting ‘Abbey Road’ by The Beatles because my dad had the greatest hits on cassette.
“I listen to that over and over and over and over and over and over and over, and you know the second half is that whole McCartney collage thing which is just this incredible virtuosity. Yeah. And it’s like it always felt kind of like you were traveling through something.”
He added: “Then I ended up living near Abbey Road. So bizarre. It just became like a road.”
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