Cillian Murphy plays the lead in Oppenheimer and took the role very seriously
While filming Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy took on a very restrictive diet. The goal was to keep him looking frail and feeble to better resemble the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Co-star Robert Downey Jr praised Cillian for the work he put into the role.He described the role as a "behemoth". Robert was candid about how Cillian had to dedicate a lot of time into preparing for the role, even forgoing fun cast trips to instead learn 30,000 words of Dutch.
He said: "It’s like you’re on this f***ing train that’s just bombing. It’s bang, bang, bang, bang. You sleep for a few hours, get up, bang it again. I was running on crazy energy; I went over a threshold to where I was not worrying about food or anything. I was so in it, a state of hyper... hyper something. But it was good because the character was like that. He never ate."
Cillian added: "I’ve smoked so many fake cigarettes for Peaky and this. My next character will not be a smoker. They can’t be good for you. Even herbal cigarettes have health warnings now."
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