'Oppenheimer': Cillian Murphy Had Six Months to Prepare For Role
The Big Picture The quotes in this article are from an interview conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike. Whenever an actor lands a lead role in a project, they know they’ll gear up for a big challenge. It gets even more intense when they’re playing historical figures because then there’s a whole other layer of research that they’ll have to do in order to sound and even move convincingly as their character.
Murphy and Nolan have worked together several times, but Murphy told Collider's Steve Weintraub that he still gets surprised by Nolan’s call because he does it “out of the blue” and he had “no idea” that Nolan was considering him for a lead historical role in a massively ambitious project. From the call on, Murphy says he knew he “had six months to really go in.
“I can’t think of any better word than it’s a dream. It sounds like such a cliché, but it’s the truth. But I had no idea he was going to call me. He just called me out of the blue. That’s his MO; you never hear from him and then he calls. So he called me, and I genuinely didn’t know what it would be, and then he said, ‘I’m making this movie about Oppenheimer and I would like you to play Oppenheimer.
Is Six Months Enough To Learn How to Embody a Historical Figure Like Oppenheimer? Murphy also revealed to Collider that his typical process of stepping into the shoes of a historical figure “would have taken more time,” but admitted that “six months was good” because they “just went straight at it” the moment the call ended.
The star-studded cast of Oppenheimer also features Robert Downey Jr. , Emily Blunt , Matt Damon , Florence Pugh , Gary Oldman , Kenneth Branagh , Rami Malek , Josh Hartnett , Jack Quaid , Alden Ehrenreich and Olivia Thirlby .
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