evidence: For more than half a decade, Cillian Murphy and his disappointed interview face have been a beloved paradox for the perpetually online. The Oppenheimer star’s tired blue eyes and plastered-on expression have long reflected the bone-deep exhaustion many smooth-brained netizens feel every day while enduring the slings and arrows of the real world. And yet, when NME asked the Irish actor in 2017 if he was aware that his visible ennui had become a meme, he could only ask, ever so earnestly, "What’s a meme?" At that point, it was game over—after all, there’s nothing the internet loves more than someone who doesn’t seem to give a shit about the internet. [...] There’s also a political aspect to Murphy’s internet-authored persona: Social media users have long enjoyed sharing interview clips in which Murphy corrects interviewers who call him British. (While Northern Ireland remains a part of the United Kingdom, Ireland has been an independent country for more than a century.) This year, Murphy’s refusal to humor folks who don’t know the difference led to another viral moment when an old video of him meeting Prince Harry—and, seemingly, giving him side-eye—started making the rounds. A doctored version of the clip also began to surface, in which audio from a past interview made it seem as though Murphy had issued his tried-and-true correction to the prince himself. False as it might have been, the internet seemed to love the idea of Murphy correcting British royalty.