“I keep away from the monitor after I’m making movies,” the actor Cillian Murphy narrates in his new Versace advert spot, “as a result of it’s a unique character, you already know?”
The newly minted Academy Award winner performs himself—or a model of himself, no less than—within the Italian label’s newest Versace Icons marketing campaign, which the model first introduced following Murphy’s huge win final month. (The actor had hinted on the upcoming ambassadorship on Oscars night time with his custom-made Atelier Versace tux.) It’s a departure from the chameleonic movie roles Murphy sometimes selects. On a film set, he says he avoids the playback monitor as a result of “you by no means need to…have an effect on what your type of journey is.” However within the Versace spot, he’s down to look at the footage roll in.
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The business, which takes inspiration from the boldly attractive Versace Males’s campaigns of the Nineteen Nineties, affords a behind-the-scenes take a look at its personal making. Filmed amidst the bustling environment of the photograph shoot, Murphy wears items from Versace’s essentials-focused Icons line: a easy white tank layered below a tailor-made black jacket with matching high-waisted trousers, belted with a golden Medusa buckle; a khaki trench with a again panel constructed from one of many model’s splashy Barocco-printed silk scarves.
Soundtracking the clip is the track handpicked by Murphy himself: “Boys within the Higher Land” by the actor’s fellow Irishmen, the Dublin post-punk band Fontaines D.C.
“Collaborating with Donatella—from sharing picture references to choosing the music of Fontaines D.C. for the video—resulted in a marketing campaign that displays who I’m,” the actor stated in a press release. He’d beforehand included the band on his BBC 6 Music playlist: “These boys are actually exploding,” he stated then, shouting out their 2019 album Dogrel. “Each single tune, they’re relentlessly themselves.”
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Murphy co-stars within the Versace Icons marketing campaign alongside Anne Hathaway, whom he by the way additionally appeared alongside in Christopher Nolan’s 2012 superhero sequel The Darkish Knight Rises.
“Robust, direct, iconic. For me, Anne and Cillian are two of one of the best actors of as we speak,” Donatella Versace stated in a press release. “Exceptionally gifted and type individuals I like and respect, wanting their greatest. Very Versace.”
