“Oppenheimer” debuts this Thursday (20) in Brazil. The advertising campaign for Christopher Nolan’s new film spared no effort in “promoting” all aspects of production (analogue, shot in IMAX, with giant reels, etc.). But it’s also important to know who’s who in the film.
Incidentally, part of the fun of the film is its cast, filled with giants and other familiar Hollywood faces. Among them are: Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr.
Cast of ‘Oppenheimer’
To help you know who is in the plot, the has prepared a guide on the cast, their respective characters and the relationship between them.
Thus, there will be room in the mind to enjoy the visual (and aural) spectacle that “Oppenheimer” promises to deliver.
Check it out below:
Physicist who led the Manhattan Project, the Allied effort to build the atomic bomb during World War II (learn more about the scientist).
Biologist and botanist, Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer is the wife of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
J. Robert Oppenheimer’s younger brother is a particle physicist with experience in radiation research.
Frank joined the Manhattan Project and worked on instrumentation for the Trinity test.
Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Rear Admiral of the United States Navy.
The lieutenant general is a US Army Corps of Engineers officer who directed the top secret Manhattan Project for the US government.
A junior member of the Manhattan Project’s Theory Division.
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist became a colleague of J. Robert Oppenheimer while both worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (learn more about what Einstein has to do with Oppenheimer).
Winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics, Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who developed atomic theory and whom J. Robert Oppenheimer met at Cambridge University.
As head of the US Office of Scientific Research and Development, the engineer and inventor oversaw the early management of the Manhattan Project.
Psychiatrist and active member of the Communist Party, Jean Tatlock met J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1936, while he was a professor of physics at UC Berkeley.
Director of the Manhattan Project’s Trinity Test Site.
The nuclear physicist and inventor was a professor of physics at UC Berkeley and a friend of Oppenheimer.
William Borden is the former executive director of the United States Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
An ingenious and volatile theoretical physicist, he is an original member of the Manhattan Project.
American physicist who worked with Oppenheimer at UC (University of California) Berkeley and became a member of the Manhattan Project.
A Harvard University Ph.D. scientist, he works as a staff scientist for the Manhattan Project.
American physicist and friend of Oppenheimer.
Appointed by Oppenheimer as head of the Manhattan Project’s Theory Division.
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist joined the Manhattan Project when it was first developed.
He worked in Chicago at the Met Lab before moving to Los Alamos in 1944 as associate director of the laboratory.
A Senate aide who works closely with Lewis Strauss.
Author and professor of Romance languages, Haakon Chevalier befriended J. Robert Oppenheimer while both were teaching at UC Berkeley.
The film
“Oppenheimer” is a historical drama film directed by Nolan and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biopic “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
Set in World War II, the feature film (three hours) follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), a theoretical physicist at the University of California and director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project, whose mission was to design and build the first atomic bombs.
The plot accompanies the physicist and a group of other scientists throughout the process of developing the nuclear weapon responsible for the tragedies in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
The film hits theaters this Thursday (20th) – coincidentally, the same day as “Barbie”. Coincidence that, together with heavy marketing campaigns, has produced many memes.
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