

The second trailer for the movie has been released and the movie is scheduled to hit theaters July 21. Director Christopher Nolan and his cast of A-list movie stars shot scenes for their movie “Oppenheimer” at several locations around town. Los Alamos Daily past March Hollywood paid a visit to Los Alamos. Robert Oppenheimer during a scene filmed in Los Alamos for ‘Oppenheimer’. And I just love being on his sets.Cillian Murphy as J. He’s offered me very interesting roles over and I’ve found all of them really challenging. He’s had a profound impact on my life, creatively and professionally.

I felt confident going into it with Chris. “But you know you’re with one of the great directors of all time. He was complicated and contradictory and so iconic,” Murphy said. “You realize this is a huge responsibility. as a founder of the Atomic Energy Commission and many more rounding out the pivotal players in and around this tense moment in history. “Oppenheimer,” which opens in theaters on July 21, features a starry cast including Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife Kitty, Matt Damon as the man who hired Oppenheimer for the job at Los Alamos, Robert Downey Jr. Robert Oppenheimer is the most important person who ever lived.” Soon, the United States was at work to strengthen its nuclear arsenal, developing plans to work on an even more catastrophic weapon: the hydrogen bomb.Īs Nolan has said, “Like it or not J. It didn’t, but several weeks later the United States would drop those bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing tens of thousands of people and leaving many with lifelong injuries. Nolan would also call on Murphy to be the conflicted heir to a business empire in “Inception” and a traumatized soldier in “Dunkirk.” Crane/Scarecrow, who would go on to appear in all three films. Murphy knew he wasn’t right for the Dark Knight, but he wanted to meet the man who’d directed “Insomnia” and “Memento.” They hit it off and Murphy got to tap into a sinister intensity to play the corrupt psychiatrist Dr. He was brought in to screen test for Batman - not just the movie, the character.

“But deep down, secretly, I was desperate to play a lead for him.” I don’t really care about the size of the part,” he said. “I have always said publicly and privately, to Chris, that if I’m available and you want me to be in a movie, I’m there. He knows there are some movies he’s right for and some movies he isn’t. It’s just hard to predict if he’s going to. “It was a great day.”įor Murphy, it is never not exciting to get a call from Nolan. I’d like you to be my Oppenheimer,’” Murphy, 47, told The Associated Press earlier this year. “He’s so understated and self-deprecating and, in his very English manner, just said, ‘Listen, I’ve written this script, it’s about Oppenheimer.

The Irish actor, though a regular presence in Nolan films going back almost two decades, had always been a supporting player. The day Christopher Nolan called Cillian Murphy about his new film, “Oppenheimer,” Murphy hung up the phone in disbelief.
