Cillian Murphy Didn't Learn Atomic Bomb Science For Nolan's Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy reveals that he didn't learn atomic bomb science for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer and chose instead to focus his research on Oppenheimer himself. Christopher Nolan is best known for big-budget blockbusters like The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk, and his next film will be no exception. It was announced last year that Nolan's next project, following the disappointing box office performance of 2020's Tenet, would be a biopic on J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist involved in the Manhattan Project who would become known as the "father of the atomic bomb."
Although perhaps less action-oriented than many of his previous films, Oppenheimer is set to have the most star-studded cast of any of Nolan's projects to date, featuring the likes of Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Emily Blunt, Kenneth Branagh, Matt Damon, Josh Hartnett, Rami Malek, Jack Quaid, Dane DeHaan, Benny Safdie, and Matthew Modine. Based on American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Oppenheimer is currently in production in New Mexico and is expected to release in July of next year.
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In a new interview with The Guardian, Murphy reveals the preparation he undertook for the role and explains that his research didn't include learning any in-depth science regarding atomic bombs. Instead, Murphy says, he focused on Oppenheimer himself and how creating the bomb affected him as a person. Check out Murphy's full comment below:
"[I prepped by doing] an awful lot of reading. I’m interested in the man and what [inventing the atomic bomb] does to the individual. The mechanics of
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