Your face is tattooed on my thigh: Dave Bautista Proudly Flaunts His Cillian Murphy Tattoo, Cl
Fans’ getting the name of their favorite celebrity inked is not an uncommon trend, but what’s unique is getting the face of your favorite character tattooed on your body. The wrestler-turned-actor Dave Bautista has a similar experience to share where he accidentally got a tattoo of Cillian Murphy on his thigh.
When Murphy got to know about this, the actor gave a priceless reaction to Bautista’s tattoo.
Dave Bautista got Cillian Murphy’s face tattooed on his thigh
Actor Dave Bautista is known for his portrayal of Drax the Destroyer in the Marvel film Guardians of the Galaxy. Apart from his impressive career as an actor, Bautista is also a professional wrestler. Bautista’s giant personality has often been the center of attraction, and the major add-on to it is his tattoos.
Bautista’s fondness for tattoos is quite evident as his body is mostly covered with them. Each of his tattoos signifies something. Previously, during a conversation with GQ, the actor revealed that he has this one tattoo which he is slightly embarrassed of.
Bautista claimed that he is a huge fan of Cillian Murphy’s character in Peaky Blinders. Well, who’s not? Indeed everyone is guilty of binge-watching the British period crime drama series, and Murphy’s performance as Tommy Shelby has made people go nuts for him.
But in Bautista’s case, he was so influenced by the character of Shelby that he decided to get his tattoo on his body. The actor gave an insight into how the inking came to be. He said,
“‘I found this really cool picture [of Tommy Shelby] that I love and I always wanted to do this. This cool picture was of Cillian Murphy from Peaky Blinders and I asked [my tattoo artist] John to alter it so it didn’t look so much like Cillian Murphy. And I got it and I thought. Okay, that doesn’t look exactly like I have a tattoo of Cillian Murphy on my thigh”.
However, when the actor posted his new tattoo on social media, his followers pointed out that he got a tattoo of Cillian Murphy’s face. Since it was already too late, Bautista had no other option but to accept that his tattoo was exactly Murphy’s face. The actor said,
“It is what it is. So, you know, a little embarrassed but not ashamed Cillian, there you go. Your face is tattooed on my thigh.”
The tattoo that Bautista got inked had Murphy’s face that was splattered with blood. Above the face was Tommy Shelby’s signature hat and around the face were words that say, “Gentleman Hooligan.” So, it’s a tattoo that combines the actor’s face, his character’s hat, and those words.
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Cillian Murphy’s reaction to Dave Bautista’s tattoo
Dave Bautista‘s Cillian Murphy tattoo indeed got famous, so much so that the actor got to know about it through his children. During an interview, when Murphy was asked if he had seen Bautista’s tattoo, the actor gave a wholesome reply. He responded by saying, “My kids showed it to me.”
When the interviewers told him that Bautista was looking forward to talking to him about the tattoo, he responded by saying,
“That’ll be a lovely, interesting, awkward chat I imagine.”
The actor further said that he would ask Bautista to show him the tattoo on his leg.
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