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Despite playing a man of the cloth in the new project, which also stars Margaret Qualley, Charlie Day, and Aubrey Plaza, Evans, 44, strips down to his jock strap in one particularly revealing scene in the dark detective caper.
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Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 9 Oct. 2025
Invisible among the bustle of his FBI bureau, Tom once led a quiet life as a man of the cloth.
—EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Greg Lockwood turned out to be no ordinary man of the cloth.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
The creative man of the cloth documented his time in a handwritten journal, which the current owner plans to pass down to the next owner.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2025
As a man of the cloth, Jakes found the entire incident to be a spiritual experience.
—Rachel McRady, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
And with that, Elijah Gemstone becomes a true man of the cloth, even if that cloth will, in future generations, be silky and bejeweled and catch the stage lights at a megachurch.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
For a man of the cloth, his answers to my questions were non-ideological.
—Mohsen Milani, Foreign Affairs, 25 June 2013
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Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 9 Oct. 2025
Invisible among the bustle of his FBI bureau, Tom once led a quiet life as a man of the cloth.
—EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Greg Lockwood turned out to be no ordinary man of the cloth.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
The creative man of the cloth documented his time in a handwritten journal, which the current owner plans to pass down to the next owner.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2025
As a man of the cloth, Jakes found the entire incident to be a spiritual experience.
—Rachel McRady, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
And with that, Elijah Gemstone becomes a true man of the cloth, even if that cloth will, in future generations, be silky and bejeweled and catch the stage lights at a megachurch.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
For a man of the cloth, his answers to my questions were non-ideological.
—Mohsen Milani, Foreign Affairs, 25 June 2013
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“Man of the cloth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man%20of%20the%20cloth. Accessed 20 Dec. 2025.
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