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Some guys like to treat the red carpet like a whole performance, but Cillian Murphy does the exact opposite. The man just turns up, he stands still, and he somehow steals the room. And at the world premiere of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple in London, he reminded everyone that, sometimes, holding back is the biggest flex.
In the press pit, the Irish national treasure calmly and quietly pulled up in a double-breasted suit from Marylebone label Anglo-Italian. Made by hand in Italy, it's built with soft shoulders, sharp, fanged-out lapels, and nice tortoise shell buttons. The cloth itself was a nailhead flannel that's woven by Fox Brothers in Somerset and specifically designed to look vintage. It's all very wintery, all very serious, and all very Murphy.
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Underneath, he went with a black rollneck (also by Anglo-Italian, FYI). No shirt, no tie, no unnecessary layers, just clean lines and a bit of mood. His leather boots were polished, sensible, and exactly what you'd expect from the Oscar winner – which is the point.
What makes Murphy so good at this isn't just the clothes, it's the lack of fuss around them. “The red carpet can be particularly noisy,” said his stylist Rose Forde in a 2024 interview with British Vogue. “There's a tendency to try more and say more. It's easy to over-style. But there's a natural cool with Cillian – an ease and a nonchalance about him. He exudes style over being a ‘fashion guy.’” And that ease is doing a lot of work here.
We saw the same aura during his Oppenheimer press trail: soft tailoring, low-key colours, nothing forced. And it looks like history's repeating itself. The 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple tour has only just begun, and with the new Peaky Blinders film landing later this year, there's plenty more Cillian Murphy on the horizon.
If this is the baseline, we're in for a very good run.