OPPENHEIMER Actor Benny Safdie Says It's Christopher Nolan’s "Best Movie by Far"
The hype for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer continues to grow as Uncut Gems director and actor Benny Safdie shares high praise for it on social media. He plays physicist Edward Teller in the film, and the actor shared a photo of his character with the following note:
"A brand new look at Edward Teller post Nuke test! I got to see the movie recently, and I can tell you with certainty: This is Chris’ best movie by far. It’s got everything firing on all cylinders."
That’s the best praise you can get because Nolan has made some pretty incredible films over the course of his career! I have no doubt that Oppenheimer is going to be a great movie, we’ll just have to wait and see if it’s actually is Nolan’s best!
The epic thriller will thrust audiences into “the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.” Nolan is such a strong storyteller and this movie is going to be something special, it just looks like in incredible movie that tells a fascinating story.
The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who ran the Manhattan Project that led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II. He is joined by Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey, Jr. as Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
The movie also stars Florence Pugh as psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber, Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence, along with Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Dane DeHaan, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, and Matthew Modine.
The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. Oppenheimer is filmed in a combination of IMAX® 65mm and 65mm large-format film photography including, for the first time ever, sections in IMAX® black and white analogue photography.
Oppenheimer opens in theaters on July 21, 2023.