Cillian Murphy Says OPPENHIEMER Will Include "Prolonged Full Nudity" and Sex Scenes
Oppenheimer will be Christopher Nolan's first R-rated movie since his 2002 feature film Insomnia, and now we know one of the big reasons why.
According to the film’s star Cillian Murphy, the film will include "prolonged full nudity" and sex scenes between Murphy and Florence Pugh, along with "complicated" scenes with Emily Blunt. The actor went on to say that shooting those scenes with Blunt “were pretty heavy,” and he added, “I’m under strict instructions not to give away anything.”
Pugh plays J. Robert Oppenhiemer’s ex-fiancée and lover, Jean Tatlock, who was a psychiatrist and member of the Communist Party, while Blunt takes on the role of his wife, the scientist Kitty Oppenheimer. As you might imagine, the age gap between Pugh (27) and Murphy (47) has caused quite a stir on social media. The 20-year age gap between the actors is double that of the real-life Oppenheimer and Jean Tatlock. That’s Hollywood for ya!
It’s funny that the most controversial thing about a movie that tells the story of the creation of the world-changing devastating nuclear weapon is the sex and nudity that will be in it.
it’s hardly the most controversial thing about the movie given that it’s exploring Oppenheimer’s development of the devastating atomic bomb:
Blunt and Murphy previously starred alongside each other in A Quiet Place 2, which the actor explained helped with their scenes in Oppenheimer. He said: "You can be immediately vulnerable and open, and try stuff. There were moments where I remember saying, 'I couldn't have done that if it wasn't with you.'"
The film centers on the scientist who ran the Manhattan Project that led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II. The film has been described as an “epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.”
Murphy is joined in the film by Robert Downey, Jr. as founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Lewis Strauss; Matt Damon as Manhattan Project director Leslie Groves Jr.; Benny Safdie as theoretical physicist Edward Teller; and Josh Hartnett as pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence. The movie also stars Rami Malek, Gary Oldman, Michael Angarano, Olivia Thirlby, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, Jason Clarke, David Krumholtz, Kenneth Branagh, and David Dastmalchian.
Oppenheimer will be released in theaters on July 21, 2023.
Source: The Guardian