Monica Padman, a 32-year-old actress, is his quieter co-host she also handles the behind-the-scenes work of wrangling guests and editing interviews. Shepard - known for his roles on “Parenthood” and the new sitcom “Bless This Mess” - is the face and primary voice of the podcast. Shepard’s wife, was the show’s first guest. The episodes feature a mix of Hollywood names (Will Ferrell, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ellen DeGeneres, Emilia Clarke), authors (Elizabeth Gilbert, David Sedaris, Gillian Flynn) and specialists in various fields (Richard Dawkins, Esther Perel, the California surgeon general Nadine Burke Harris, Bill Nye). Shepard’s interview podcast, which premiered in 2018. Such casually blunt questions are a hallmark of “Armchair Expert,” Mr. Filling the coffee maker with water for himself, he asked: Did I have addictive tendencies? Shepard wanted to know: Would I like coffee? I said that I’d already had tea that morning, and besides, I was trying and routinely failing to honor my doctor’s suggestion to drink less caffeine. The couple shares two sons together, Malachy, 16, and Aran, 14.Before we sat down, Mr. Murphy married his longtime girlfriend McGuinness in 2004. I’d feel like a bit of an interloper if I lived in California, I couldn’t envisage living there permanently.” “I don’t know, I just feel European, I just feel Irish. “I love visiting and I love the food and I do love the weather,” he concluded.

The actor then went on to share another reason for taking this decision, “And you know, our parents are at a certain age. Murphy continued, “It's kind of an Irish story to move away, do your thing and come home, that seems to be a common narrative for Irish people.” “We were in London for 14 years, both our kids were born there and we only came back to Dublin in 2015,” the 45-year-old star added.

They were sort of at that age where they were pre-teens and had very posh English accents and I wasn't appreciating that too much! So we decided to come back.” The actor said, “We wanted the kids to be Irish. Cillian Murphy shared that the reason of moving back to his home country Ireland was because his kids had developed ‘posh English accents.’ĭuring an interview with Dax Shepard on his Armchair Expert podcast, the Peaky Blinders actor revealed he and Yvonne McGuinness wanted their kids to be Irish so they decided to leave London after spending more than a decade there.

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