Cillian Murphy Is Still a Pro at Subtle Red-Carpet Suiting

Some guys like to treat the red carpet like a whole performance, but Cillian Murphy does the exact opposite. The man just turns up, stands still, and somehow steals the room. At the world premiere of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple in London on Thursday, he reminded everyone that, sometimes, holding back is the biggest flex.

On the red carpet, the Irish national treasure calmly and quietly pulled up in a double-breasted gray suit from Anglo-Italian, a label based in Marylebone, London. Crafted in Italy, the suit was built with soft shoulders, and sharp, fanged-out lapels, plus some nice tortoiseshell buttons. The cloth itself was a vintage-looking nailhead flannel woven by Fox Brothers in Somerset, England. It’s all very wintery, all very serious, and all very Murphy.

Underneath, he went with a black turtleneck (also by Anglo-Italian, FYI). No collars, no ties, 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 exactly 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,” his stylist Rose Forde told British Vogue in 2024. “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 colors, 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.

A version of this story originally appeared on British GQ.