Cillian Murphy Is Dressing Like the Anti-Ken

Shortly earlier than Cillian Murphy and his fellow Oppenheimer forged members walked off a London crimson carpet on Thursday in solidarity with SAG-AFTRA becoming a member of the WGA on the picket line, the actor debuted his largest match but: a black-pinstriped Saint Laurent go well with worn open over a gauzy sheer shirt, with a gold-tipped bolo tie, high-waisted trousers, and a pair of the model’s Wyatt boots—or, as they’re recognized ’spherical these elements, “the Rolex of Chelsea boots.”

Photographs of Murphy—whose ice-blue eyes might gouge a diamond—attending varied Oppenheimer premieres during the last week have already garnered meme cachet on-line. However this look—and his facial expressions whereas carrying it—appeared to sign that he (and his stylist, Rose Forde) had saved the perfect for final. (The London occasion may very well be his closing crimson carpet for some time; per the strike, SAG members can not take part in press excursions or occasions.) All through the truncated promotional run, the actor’s style decisions have emitted a sure “nuclear Kenergy” in stark distinction together with his bubblegum confrères over in Barbie Land, which has become Oppenheimer’s spiritual counter-realm. In different phrases, Cillian Murphy, who portrays the titular “father of the atomic bomb” J. Robert Oppenheimer in his movie, has form of been dressing just like the Anti-Ken.

The place there’s Ryan Gosling, in his pastel cotton-candy-pink and blue-raspberry-hued Gucci fits, there’s additionally Murphy, in his brooding, pseudo-sexy YSL. (Inside you might be two wolves, as they are saying.) At Oppenheimer’s first premiere in Paris, Murphy arrived in a customized Prada tan shirt and matching quick tie—not in contrast to a World Conflict II-era khaki summer time service uniform, making it practically period-appropriate given Oppenheimer’s milieu—with a darkish jacket worn, chicly, with simply the highest button buttoned. Throughout a wet photocall in London’s Trafalgar Sq., Murphy wore Margiela shades and a staunch Studio Nicholson cardigan over a easy white T-shirt, tucked into one other pair of high-waisted trousers; he wore an analogous look, this time with a nubby crimson cardigan and Ray-Bans, the subsequent day.

Although the Barbie vs. Oppenheimer fashion rivalry held sturdy, the flicks’ respective stars—in one other present of solidarity—have expressed nothing however pleasure for his or her fellow thespians’ efforts. “I imply, I’ll be going to see Barbie, 100%. I can’t wait to see it,” Murphy told IGN this week. “I feel it’s simply nice for the business and for audiences that we’ve two wonderful movies by wonderful filmmakers popping out the identical day. Yeah, you possibly can spend the entire day within the cinema—what’s higher than that?”