If there was an award for best supporting facial expression, Cillian Murphy’s “I’d really rather be home right now” thousand-yard stare would win this year.
Murphy ― the frontrunner for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his work in “Oppenheimer” ― has Big Introvert Energy, something that fellow introverts, meme accounts and brands with smart social media teams have picked up on this Oscar season.
“Me arriving at the plans I made when I was feeling extroverted,” reads one tweet alongside a clip of the Irish actor meandering around the red carpet at the Golden Globes in January.
“Cillian Murphy fighting for that 8% battery that he has left as an introvert at 7 o’clock,” another person tweeted about the same clip.
Another favorite clip shows Murphy sighing wistfully, hands folded in his lap. One version from the Instagram account of The Wildest, a lifestyle pet site, is captioned: “When I attend a party and the host doesn’t have a pet for me to hyperfixate on.”
For what it’s worth, Murphy, 47, has never outright come out and said he’s an introvert; he’s too cool and self-effacing for that. But in interviews throughout the years, he and and co-stars have alluded to his reserved temperament on set.
“Cillian Murphy Didn’t Join ‘Oppenheimer’ Cast Dinners Because ‘His Brain Was Just Too Full,’ Says Matt Damon,” one headline reads ― which is absolutely an excuse we’re going to borrow the next time we bail on a friend’s party.
In a 2016 appearance on Ireland’s “The Late Late Show,” he shared his trick for dodging unwanted conversations: “The more boring you are in real life, the less people are interested in you, so I tell people I have an extraordinarily boring life, but it’s actually incredibly exciting,” he tells the host, with a sly smile.
In Murphy’s sit-down with “Barbie” star Margot Robbie for Variety, the “Oppenheimer” star shows off another patented introvert move: keeping the…
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