Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer, justified the decision to hire scientists for figuration
Christopher Nolan admitted that he hired real scientists as extras for Oppenheimer in an interview with Entertainment Weekly (via Omelet). The film portrays the story of Manhattan Project and the creation of the atomic bomb by the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
“We were in real Los Alamos and we had a lot of real scientists as extras,” nolan stated. “We needed a crowd of extras to react and improvise. We got ad-libs and speeches that were really fun to listen to.”
The need to be “faithful to history” goes through the smallest details for the filmmaker, who justified: “I’ve been on sets with several extras who were thinking more about lunch. These guys [cientistas figurantes] were thinking about the geopolitical implications of nuclear weapons and knew a lot about it.”
“It served as a great reminder for every day: we need to stay within our game, we need to be true to the story and really know what we’re doing,” nolan completed about the feature film.
Cillian Murphy (peaky blinders, 2013) is the big star of the film and plays the scientist after whom the production is named. The screenplay is based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2006), from kai bird It is Martin Sherwin.
Oppenheimer premiere scheduled for July 20, 2023 in Brazil.
Source: Rollingstone
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