Cillian Murphy, Breakfast on Pluto

In one of the year's big about-faces, Cillian Murphy, the scary blue-eyed psycho of Batman Begins and Red Eye, dons a dress, heels, hat and makeup as a 1970s free spirit and full-time drag queen in Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto. Murphy's Patrick "Kitten" Braden is a hippie-era Candide whose odyssey, from Ireland to London and back, is spurred by a search for the mother he never knew. For the 29-year-old Murphy, who prodded Jordan for four years to make the film after he first auditioned, Kitten is pretty special: "Of all the characters I've played, this is the character that I fell in love with most, ever." Murphy reteamed with Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) for the sci-fi adventure Sunshine. "And I'm not the bad guy in it!" he brags.

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