How Did Cillian Murphy Prepare to Play J. Robert Oppenheimer?

Director Christopher Nolan traveled all the way to Dublin to hand Murphy a physical copy of the Oppenheimer script.

I don’t advise it."

Cillian Murphy as a young Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer.

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“His brain was just too full,” echoed Matt Damon.

“You sleep for a few hours, get up, bang it again,” he toldThe Guardian.

“I was running on crazy energy.

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I went over a threshold to where I was not worrying about food or anything.”

Oppenheimeris available to watch on Prime Video in the U.S.

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