From Red Wedding to red carpet: Richard Madden is joined by former Game Of Thrones brother Kit Harington as dapper co-stars attend Eternals UK gala screening
Richard Madden looked dapper as he arrived at the Eternals premiere at the BFI IMAX Waterloo in London on Wednesday evening.
The actor, 35, wore a smart black suit with matching tie as he walked the red carpet at the event.
He could be seen wearing a crisp white shirt, sporting a similar look to his co-star in the movie, Kit Harington, 34, who looked suave in a FENDI Winter21 capsule suit.
The actors first worked together on hit HBO show Game Of Thrones as on-screen half brothers Jon Snow and Robb Stark.
But while Kit's Snow featured in all six seasons, Madden's Stark was famously killed off during its bloodiest episode, dubbed The Red Wedding by fans because of its graphic brutality.
![All-stars: Richard Madden, 35, looked dapper in a black suit at the Eternals premiere in London on Wednesday as he arrived alongside similarly attired co-star Kit Harrington, 34](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/27/19/49713567-10137655-image-a-76_1635361041719.jpg)
![Richard sported a similar look to his co-star in the movie, Kit Harington, 34, who also opted for a black suit](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/27/19/49713565-10137655-image-m-75_1635361036177.jpg)
All-stars: Richard Madden, 35, looked dapper in a black suit at the Eternals premiere in London on Wednesday as he arrived alongside similarly attired co-star Kit Harington, 34
Richard stars in the film as character Ikaris, a member of the Eternals, while Kit plays human Dane Whitman.
The film sees the Eternals, an immortal alien race, come out of hiding for thousands of years to protect Earth from their evil counterparts, the Deviants.
Eternals, which premiered in Los Angeles earlier this month, stars Angelina Jolie, 46, as elite warrior Thena and Gemma Chan, 38, as the character Sersi.
![Strike a pose: Richard wore a smart black suit with matching tie as he walked the red carpet at the event](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/27/19/49713563-10137655-image-a-72_1635360822455.jpg)
Strike a pose: Richard wore a smart black suit with matching tie as he walked the red carpet at the event
![Top cast: Richard stars in the film as character Ikaris, a member of the Eternals, which first premiered in Los Angeles earlier this month](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/27/20/49714187-10137655-Top_cast_Richard_stars_in_the_film_as_character_Ikaris_a_member_-m-83_1635361436077.jpg)
Top cast: Richard stars in the film as character Ikaris, a member of the Eternals, which first premiered in Los Angeles earlier this month
![Telling the tale: The flick sees the Eternals, an immortal alien race, come out of hiding for thousands of years to protect Earth from their evil counterparts, the Deviants](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/27/19/49714191-10137655-image-a-78_1635361144863.jpg)
Telling the tale: The flick sees the Eternals, an immortal alien race, come out of hiding for thousands of years to protect Earth from their evil counterparts, the Deviants
The cast includes MCU's first deaf superhero (Lauren Ridloff as Makkari) and its first openly gay superhero (Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos) who shares the franchise's first onscreen same-sex kiss with Haaz Sleiman, who plays his husband.
In ELLE's 2021 Women In Hollywood issue, Angelina - who is an advocate for refugees - discusses her upcoming movie and praises The Eternals' director, Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao for her choice of casting.
![Looking good: Kit looked dashing in his attired, wearing a black shirt which he left open at the collar for the night](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/27/19/49714231-10137655-image-a-79_1635361153821.jpg)
Looking good: Kit looked dashing in his attired, wearing a black shirt which he left open at the collar for the night
![Dashing: The star smiled as he arrived on the red carpet in his smartly pressed pin-striped suit and matching black shirt](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/27/19/49714243-10137655-image-a-81_1635361173845.jpg)
Dashing: The star smiled as he arrived on the red carpet in his smartly pressed pin-striped suit and matching black shirt
![Critiqued: The superhero flick was lambasted by critics over its 'miserably undernourished' script, deluge of underdeveloped characters and 'overloaded' storyline](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/27/19/49714219-10137655-image-a-82_1635361179695.jpg)
Critiqued: The superhero flick was lambasted by critics over its 'miserably undernourished' script, deluge of underdeveloped characters and 'overloaded' storyline
'A lot of times as an actress, you're that individual strong woman, or you have one sister; you don't often have this family where you really get to know women and see all the different strengths,' she explained.
Praising her co-stars, she continued: 'Gemma's grace and elegance and the way she walks through the world. Salma's motherhood and power, and Lauren's connection and intelligence. Everybody came as themselves.
'Maybe there's something to that, that the characters weren't as far off [from ourselves]. I think there's a secret that we don't know that our director knows, because if you look at her films, she casts a lot of real people as their roles and it shapes her films.'
![Oh dear: Ahead of its release Eternals was branded 'disappointing' and 'ultimately unmemorable' by critics in first reviews of the hotly anticipated MCU blockbuster (above Angelina Jolie as Thena in the film)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/27/18/49607461-10137443-Oh_dear_Ahead_of_its_release_Eternals_was_branded_disappointing_-a-26_1635356134813.jpg)
Oh dear: Ahead of its release Eternals was branded 'disappointing' and 'ultimately unmemorable' by critics in first reviews of the hotly anticipated MCU blockbuster (above Angelina Jolie as Thena in the film)
She reveals in the issue that when she was first contacted about the movie, she thought it was going to play a 'grandmother' type role.
'I never thought I was going to be one of the Eternals. It doesn't happen. It's never happened to me like that before without a fight and like, 'I can do this, please hire me!' When she told me I was one of them, I was like, ''Me, Mexican, Middle Eastern? Me, in my fifties? I'm going to be a superhero in a Marvel movie?'' Sometimes as a woman, as a woman of colour and with the age, you feel so overlooked,' she said.
Commending Zao for 'having balls', she championed the director for 'acknowledging' her within the industry.
Ridloff, whose character Makkari is deaf like her and the first deaf superhero within the Marvel universe, reveals she jumped at the chance to 'show representation' on screen in a 'refreshing' way, while Chan praises Marvel for showing diversity on a global scale with its movies.
Ahead of its release, Eternals has already been branded 'disappointing' and 'ultimately unmemorable' by critics in its first reviews.
![Not good: The film was lambasted by critics over its 'miserably undernourished' script, deluge of underdeveloped characters and 'overloaded' storyline (pictured left, Don Lee as Gilgamesh, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo - and right Lauren Midloff as Makkari)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/27/18/49607441-10137443-Not_good_The_film_was_lambasted_by_critics_over_its_miserably_un-a-28_1635356134904.jpg)
Not good: The film was lambasted by critics over its 'miserably undernourished' script, deluge of underdeveloped characters and 'overloaded' storyline (pictured left, Don Lee as Gilgamesh, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo - and right Lauren Midloff as Makkari)
The superhero flick was lambasted by critics over its 'miserably undernourished' script, deluge of underdeveloped characters and 'overloaded' storyline.
Critics were torn as the 'refreshingly diverse' cast of characters resulted in a group of 'navel-gazing superheroes' that signalled 'two steps forwards for representation but three steps backwards for dramatic ingenuity.'
The Times critic Kevin Maher gave the film two stars and took aim at the 157-minute flick's script and its 'strange self-sabotaging energy.'
He wrote: 'It is the characters, however, who represent the biggest shift away from the swaggering, mostly white, mostly male, mostly straight, mostly neurotypical and mostly hearing ensembles (think Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, etc) that have defined the Marvel brand thus far.'
Adding the 'reinvented heroes work' he continued: 'But they are also, to paraphrase Pirandello, ten characters in search of a script. Because the one they have now, co-written by Chloé Zhao, the director (Nomadland), is derivative, messy and miserably undernourished.
'Eternals is two steps forwards for representation but three steps backwards for dramatic ingenuity.
Variety critic Owen Gleiberman branded the film a 'disappointment' over lacking the 'raw and real' signature quality Zhao has brought to her other films.
He wrote: 'Yet as I approached Eternals, the question I was most curious about was whether Zhao, who in Nomadland and The Rider defined her filmmaking style in a unique poetic way, would carry any remnants of that mode over to the blockbuster universe... Eternals has none of that. It's clear that that's something of a disappointment.
He added the film feels 'very standard' in comparison to 'top-tier' team superhero films (the first Guardians of the Galaxy, Zack Snyder's Justice League, and 'Avengers: Infinity War) and that the film 'never transcends its conventionality'
He did however laud the diversity of the cast, writing: 'Four of the Eternals are white, three are Asian, two are Black, and one is Latina. One is gay, one is deaf, and one is an androgynous tween who never grows up.
'Any troll who surveys this lively medley of backgrounds and temperaments only to gripe that the movie is too 'woke' might have lodged the same complaint about Star Trek 55 years ago.'
The Telegraph critic Robbie Collin again gave Eternals two stars, writing: 'The answer is the problem with Eternals in miniature: it's constantly engaged in a kind of grit-toothed authenticity theatre, going out of its way to show you it's doing all the things proper cinema does, even though none of them bring any discernible benefit whatsoever to the film at hand.
'The more muted tone rules out Marvel's fast and flippant house style: instead, Eternals opts for solemnity peppered with wackiness, which occasionally gives it the feel of a Japanese anime series.'
![Criticism: The Guardian critic Steve Rose scored the film two stars once again and likened it to a 'sophisticated PowerPoint presentation' due to its comprehensive mythological storyline](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/27/19/49607453-10137655-Criticism_The_Guardian_critic_Steve_Rose_scored_the_film_two_sta-a-73_1635361001773.jpg)
Criticism: The Guardian critic Steve Rose scored the film two stars once again and likened it to a 'sophisticated PowerPoint presentation' due to its comprehensive mythological storyline
Empire critic John Nugent gave Eternals three stars, as it was 'unable to escape the clichés of superhero storytelling' but praised Zhao's 'assured and ambitious' MCU debut.
He wrote: 'There's a fascinating tension in Eternals between the unstoppable force of the Marvel project and the immovable object of Zhao's artistic sensibilities. In many ways, this looks and feels nothing like any Chloé Zhao film we've seen before
'And yet in many ways, this film looks and feels nothing like any previous Marvel film. There are, for example, at least a couple of firsts: a genuine sex scene, and an onscreen gay kiss — unheard of in the normally rather chaste MCU.
'More frequently, though, it seems to fall into familiar traps about saving the world and learning to work together as a team; when a giant, CGI-heavy battle begins to thwart another potential apocalypse, you start to feel a formula being leaned on.'
![Actors: Evening Standard critic Charlotte O'Sullivan praised the film and gave it an impressive four stars, heaping praise on the cast, bar Gemma Chan's 'wooden' turn as Sersi (above with Kit Harington as Dane Whitman)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/10/27/19/49607483-10137655-Actors_Evening_Standard_critic_Charlotte_O_Sullivan_praised_the_-a-74_1635361001776.jpg)
Actors: Evening Standard critic Charlotte O'Sullivan praised the film and gave it an impressive four stars, heaping praise on the cast, bar Gemma Chan's 'wooden' turn as Sersi (above with Kit Harington as Dane Whitman)
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