Cillian Murphy changed up his look for a new photo shoot with GQ, apparently taking inspiration from his friend and fellow Irishman Barry Keoghan.
The Oppenheimer actor, 47, and the Saltburn star, 31, have been going head-to-head for gongs throughout this year’s awards season.
However, it was Cillian who took home the Best Actor award at the Golden Globes and earned the Oscar nomination, leaving Barry in the dust.
Despite emerging victorious, it seems Cillian has still been inspired by his friend, who has walked the awards red carpets in spectacular style.
Departing from his typically confident but stylish wardrobe, Cillian modeled a series of daring looks, including a bright blue satin shirt on the magazine’s cover.
Cillian Murphy changed up his look for a new photoshoot with GQ, apparently taking inspiration from his friend and fellow Irishman Barry Keoghan.
The Oppenheimer actor, 47, and the Saltburn star, 31, have been going head-to-head for gongs throughout this year’s awards season.
Baring his hairy chest in a low-cut black top, Cillian’s outfit was teamed with black jeans and a statement belt, along with an array of gold and beaded jewellery.
Cillian posed on plush red and pink furniture while holding a tie-dyed blue cushion in the decidedly quirky shoot for GQ’s March issue.
In another photo, Cillian wore a vest, which turned out to be one of Barry’s favourites, with a pair of matching trousers and a host of bracelets and necklaces.
During his chat with the men’s monthly magazine, Cillian told how he intends to do a year’s worth of film and is glad to be “unemployed” while he waits for the right new film.
He said: ‘I have a couple of friends who are actors, but most of them aren’t. Most of my friends are not in the business.
‘I also love not working. And I think for me, a lot of research as an actor is just living and, you know, having a normal life, doing normal things and just being able to observe and be in that kind of lovely flow of humanity.
‘If you can’t do that because you’re going from a film festival to a film set and promotions… I mean, that’s The Bubble. I’m not saying that makes you better or less as an actor, but it’s just a world in which I couldn’t exist. I think it would be very limiting what you can experience as a human being, you know?
Despite emerging victorious, it seems Cillian has still been inspired by his friend, who has walked the awards red carpets in spectacular style (pictured at the Golden Globes in January).
Straying away from his typically confident but stylish wardrobe (pictured at the Oscar nominees luncheon), Cillian modeled a series of daring looks.
Elsewhere in the interview, Cillian spoke about his increased fame following the success of Peaky Blinders and Christopher Nolan’s epic Oppenheimer.
He said: ‘For me, it always seems to go in waves. When Peaky was at his peak, you felt a different energy around you, walking around, a bit like I feel now, but then it calms down again. He comes in waves.
“And then a long time goes by without something appearing in the movies and people forget about it.” So. It seems that way, and you get over it, and then things go back to normal.’
While Cillian said he will happily chat to fans, he insists on a no-photography policy.
He said: ‘I once started doing that. I change my life. I just think it’s better to say hello and have a little conversation.
‘I tell a lot of people, you know, actor friends of mine, and they say: I feel really bad. But you don’t need a photographic record of all the places you’ve been in a day.’
Cillian is currently considered the favorite to receive the Best Actor award at the Academy Awards next month.
Elsewhere in the interview, Cillian spoke about his growing fame following the success of Peaky Blinders and Christopher Nolan’s epic Oppenheimer (pictured).
Discussing how he became involved in Nolan’s project, Cillian revealed how the director flew to Ireland with a script for his top-secret new film, printed on red paper.
He explained: “It’s supposedly photocopy-proof.” All of Nolan’s previous scripts had been delivered by Nolan or one of his family members, he tells GQ.
“So, it was his mother who gave me the script earlier. Or her brother, she will leave and return in three hours.
‘Part of this has to do with keeping the story under wraps before it’s published. But part of this has to do with tradition. They’ve always done it this way, so why stop now? It adds a ritual to it, which I really appreciate. It fits me.’
Revealing what it’s like to work on a Nolan set, she said: “When I’m on a Chris set, it feels a bit like a private, intimate laboratory. Even though he works at a tremendous pace, there’s always room for curiosity and discovering things.” , and that’s what making art should be about, you know?
‘There are no telephones, but no advertisements either: everyone knows that. And there are no chairs. Because he doesn’t sit down.
‘Sometimes a film set can be like a picnic. “Everyone has their chairs and their snacks and they’re all texting and showing each other, you know, emojis or whatever, memes, which I do know,” he says, indirectly referring to a Cillian Murphy meme without knowing What is a meme… ‘But why?’
The March issue of British GQ will be available via digital download and on newsstands on February 27.