Cillian Murphy has revealed the ‘huge responsibility’ of taking on a leading role for the first time on the silver screen under the direction of Christopher Nolan
Cillian Murphyknown for interpreting Thomas Shelby in peaky blinders (2013), reveals how he was cast in the lead role for Oppenheimer (2023) the next film directed by Christopher Nolan. Both have worked together in five other films together, three of them in the Batman franchise, The origin (2010) and Dunkirk (2017).
talking to the Associated Press, murphy said he never hid from nolan your willingness to work alongside nolan, but who secretly ‘was desperate to play a lead role for him’. The actor also said that “it felt like the right time to take on greater responsibility” on the big screen and the trust and mutual respect between the artists facilitated the dynamic between nolan It is murphy.
“I have always said publicly and privately, to Chris [Nolan] that if I’m available and you want me to be in a movie, I’m there. I don’t really care about the size of the paper,” he pointed out. murphy. “He’s so understated and self-deprecating and, in his very English way, he just said, ‘Listen, I wrote this script, it’s about Oppenheimer. I’d like you to be my Oppenheimer.”
Based on the book American Prometheus (2005), from kai bird It is Martin J. Sherwinthe film accompanies J. Robert Oppenheimerone of the most important physicists in world history, showing his contributions to the Manhattan Project as he struggled with the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.
In addition to murphythe list of Oppenheimer features big movie names like Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Alden Ehrenreich, Benny Safdie, Michael Angarano, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, dylan arnold, David Krumholtz It is Matthew Modine.
With almost 3 hours of duration, given the previous work of murphy with nolanyour portrait of Oppenheimer is already considered by specialized critics to be a strong candidate for the big awards of the cinematographic industry. The film will hit theaters nationwide on July 21.
Watch tense and explosive trailer in Oppenheimer below:
Source: Rollingstone
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