New Mexico will most definitely forever keep all the atomic memories of the legends that walked and filmed the most challenging project of their lives so far with Christopher Nolan’s recently released Oppenheimer.
The actors, however, are having the most fun out of the press junkets for the film as they get to share their behind-the-scenes shenanigans and everybody knows something about the other.
Robert Downey Jr. playing Lewis Strauss had a phenomenal experience in the film and can’t stop recalling scenes with Cillian Murphy as he noticed some striking activities on the set.
According to Downey Jr., Christopher Nolan can provide an odd hybrid atmosphere where the actors are extremely free to experiment but in a most taxing way.
Robert Downey Jr. Exposes Cillian Murphy’s On-Set Secret
After working with Christopher Nolan for almost twenty years, Cillian Murphy knows how the master director likes to think and work. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Murphy recalled that Nolan gave him the script, and that was it.
Murphy has never done a lead role in Nolan’s films and this was his chance to prove himself, which he did. He worked incredibly hard portraying J. Robert Oppenheimer and Downey Jr. witnessed his secret method.
“It was a heroic effort watching [Cillian Murphy] play this guy man,” Downey Jr. told Will Marfuggi of Entertainment Tonight.
“Well I think, you’re very kind,” Murphy pats Downey Jr’s back. “I think, and I get embarrassed, we were shooting in New Mexico and guys were like – ‘Emily and Matt are hanging out,’ while I was in the bath, learning lines.”
Cillian Murphy, according to his co-stars, worked like a machine to establish himself as the leading man in front of such behemoths with massive experience.
Robert Downey Jr. Called Working in Oppenheimer A Taxing Venture
Mixing up in a roster so bizarre and losing themselves in the characters was the only refuge for the actors, as Robert Downey Jr. recalled how exhaustive the experience had been.
ET’s Marfuggi told Downey Jr. that Emily Blunt, in her own interview with ET, thought working in the film felt like a summer camp.
The 58-year-old actor had a hilarious response –
“‘Summer camp she said?’ Okay, let me give a counterpoint. Well, to agree with her, I would say that you have pretty much a who’s who of several generations of actors, and we’re all there for the love of it. It was an exceptionally taxing venture for all of us, and we’d do it again if we could survive it.”
Even if the experience had been as taxing as the former Iron Man star said, he holds Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy’s talent in the highest of regards.
Oppenheimer unexpectedly gave us our dream cast, and we can only hope that these actors can collaborate again under the Nolan umbrella in a future project.
Released on July 21, Oppenheimer is punching the box office numbers every day.
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