Cillian Murphy Is Flattered Everyone Thought He Would Play an Emaciated Zombie in '28 Years Later'

Cillian Murphy Is Flattered Everyone Thought He Would Play an Emaciated Zombie in '28 Years Later'

Murphy will instead return as Jim in the upcoming '28 Days Later: The Bone Temple.'

Cillian Murphy's Son Made Sure the Chronically Offline Actor Knew People Thought He Was the Emaciated Infected in the 28 Years Later Trailer: 'That's Great People Think I Look Like a Zombie Cadaver'

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Cillian Murphy Amusingly Reacts To People Thinking He Was the Zombie in 28 YEAR LATER Trailer — GeekTyrant

Cillian Murphy is officially returning to his iconic role as Jim in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, but for a hot second, fans thought they had already seen him... as a zombie.When the first trailer dropped for 28 Years Later, many swore the corpse-like figure shuffling across the screen was Murphy himself, but it was later confirmed the undead character was actually portrayed by art dealer and model Angus Neill. Now, Murphy has finally respond…

Cillian Murphy Teases 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE Role And Responds To "Emaciated Infected" Speculation

Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy has responded to the "flattering" speculation that he was 28 Years Later's emaciated infected, and teases his brief role in Nia DaCosta's 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.

Cillian Murphy Is Flattered Everyone Thought He Would Play an Emaciated Zombie in ’28 Years Later’

As soon as the teaser trailer for 28 Years Later dropped, pretty much everyone and their mom assumed the skinny zombie seen struggling through flowers looked uncannily like Cillian Murphy’s Jim, the franchise’s original main character from director Danny Boyle and Alex Garland‘s 2002 28 Days Later. The internet sleuths swiftly discovered the likeness was pure serendipity, but the Oscar-winning actor now says he was touched that fans had assumed …