As Christopher Nolan is back with yet another passion project of his, we’ll finally be able to see top-tier acting performances from some of the most revered acting giants of Hollywood, such as Robert Downey Jr, Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, and Gary Oldman among many others. Nolan’s Oppenheimer is just around the corner, and we can’t hold our excitement as the film’s premise is rather “explosive.”
Nolan is a master of his craft as he has been able to tap into the deepest elements of filmmaking that most directors can’t even fathom. With films like Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy, The Prestige, Interstellar, Tenet, and Dunkirk, he has proven his ability to handle projects that send out a larger-than-life message to the audience.
The man is also known for working with actors that he has experience with. Cillian Murphy however is always on his radar as the actor has phenomenal acting skills, check out Peaky Blinders! He looks perfect in the role of Julius Robert Oppenheimer.
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Cillian Murphy Was Blown Away By ‘This Scene’
The one particular scene that people are most excited to witness is the one where Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr exchange dialogues at a meeting, as shown in the trailers.
Robert Downey Jr plays the role of Lewis Strauss who chaired the “atomic energy commission” back in the ‘40s and despised Oppenheimer for the humiliation he had to face because of him.
Cillian talks about the “mind-blowing” scene in an interview with ComicBook and shares how he was delighted with RDJ’s exceptional performance.
“I think Robert Downey Jr. is just absolutely electrifying in that role. I think he’s mind-blowingly good in it. We talked a lot – me, Robert, and Chris about it, about this dynamic between that relationship because it’s really, really interesting and complex. When you think that ‘one man’s motivation in destroying another man’ can be about a slight at this tiny, tiny event, he feels slighted. It was just fascinating to talk about that.”
Robert Downey Jr Gets High Praise From Cillian Murphy
The Iron Man legend, Robert Downey Jr is almost a veteran actor now. What he brings to the table can be seen in his intense acting sense. Along with that, he is famously known to be an incredibly supportive co-actor who can improvise any scene to the best of his capacity.
Playing Lewis Strauss, RDJ can be seen threatening Murphy’s Oppenheimer as he believed the latter had some mysterious ties to Communist powers and wanted to export radioactive isotopes to other countries.
Cillian Murphy was surprised as he didn’t think the scene would be that “brilliant.”
He shared –
“The scenes where we worked together, it was just the best. He’s the most wonderful scene partner, so generous, and so focused. But you never know what you’re going to get in a brilliant way. In some of those scenes, Chris let us loose a little bit so we could actually improvise a little bit. They were some of my favorite scenes in the movie.”
Murphy’s Oppenheimer will be seen attempting to create the world’s first-ever “atom bomb” on July 21, brace for impact!
Source: ComicBook
