The actor Cillian Murphy has worked several times with Christopher Nolan since their first collaboration on ‘Batman Begins’. However, they had all been secondary roles until the director of ‘Tenet’ decided to offer him the leading role of ‘Oppenheimer’, his new behind-the-scenes job.
A great responsibility
Their new job together revolves around J. Robert Oppenheimerconsidered the father of the atomic bomb. Murphy has now spoken about his involvement in the film in a chat with Esquire, where he recalled that he got his previous roles simply through a call from Nolan and that “I always say yes because they are always greatalthough in this case it was a surprise that he thought of him for the leading role:
It’s the first time I’ve been cast as a lead, so I’m still a bit in shock, but I’m excited. It’s a great role and a lot of work. But you’re working with one of the greatest directors alive, so you’re in good hands.
Murphy has also highlighted that “the difference with this film is that the story is there, everyone knows what happened. But Chris is going to tell it in a different way, just as you would expect from him. That’s all I can sayAnd it’s that he’s not even allowed to confirm if the movie is going to revolve around him. manhattan project: “They would kill me, they are very strict“.
For now, the protagonist of ’28 days later’ is preparing for the role, but acknowledges that It’s not exactly an easy task:
There is a lot of material and I will read it all. I’m never going to understand quantum mechanics, no matter how hard I try or how many times it’s explained to me (…) But I can begin to understand, conceptually, what they were trying to do.
In fact, Murphy acknowledges that the responsibility of doing ‘Oppenheimer’ it feels “huge and terrifying“, but what “If I thought it was going to be easy, I wouldn’t be interested. Sometimes I get nervous, anxious or insecure, but then I react like: Fuck it. I’ve been doing this 25 years and I’ve done it before. So keep going”.
What motivates you when accepting a role?
Finally, it highlights a reflection on What motivates you when choosing a role?: “I have always been interested in the material that it is, I don’t want to say that it is dark because it is very reductionist, melancholic, ambiguous or more transgressive. That to me is the drama. That’s where the real stuff is. I’m not interested in romantic comedies“.
Before ‘Oppenheimer’, we can see Murphy in the sixth and final season of ‘Peaky Blinders’, which will premiere this same 2022.