The Oppenheimer actor consumed one almond daily. ’.
Cillian Murphy is receiving excellent reviews for his pivotal role in Christopher Nolan’s most recent film, Oppenheimer, but he had to make some compromises to get there.
After going to great lengths to play J, the 47-year-old underwent a drastic transformation and lost so much weight that his co-star Emily Blunt described him as “emaciated.”. “Father of the atomic bomb” Robert Oppenheimer. ”.
“He had such a big task. The actress who portrays biologist Kitty Oppenheimer, Cillian’s on-screen wife, told Extra in a recent interview that her on-screen husband was only allowed to consume one almond per day.
Cillian would avoid joining the cast for meals due to his strict diet, the duo revealed in a separate interview with Matt Damon, who plays Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project.
“Each evening, we invited Cillian to join us for dinner, but he never showed.
According to Matt and Emily of Entertainment Tonight, Cillian “just didn’t eat dinner, ever.
He was losing so much weight for the role.
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Furthermore, Cillian has been candid about the “overwhelming” lengths he took to defend Oppenheimer, who he said depended on cigarettes and alcohol for survival. I love acting with my body, and Oppenheimer had a very distinct physicality and silhouette, which I wanted to capture accurately, he said in a May interview with the New York Times.
He was very thin, almost emaciated, and subsisted on martinis and cigarettes, so “I had to lose quite a bit of weight, and we worked with the costume and tailoring,” he remarked.
The Peaky Blinders actor admitted that his character Oppenheimer’s job was so demanding that he didn’t have time to think about his lack of nutrition, despite his unhealthy approach to character development. “You’re riding a [expletive] bombing train. Bang, bang, bang, bang is the sound. He explained to The Guardian that after a short period of sleep, you wake up and bang it once more.
“I was running on wild energy; I reached a point where I wasn’t worried about food or anything…But it was appropriate since the character was like that. Never did he feel hungry. ”.
In addition to refusing to say how much weight he lost for the role, Cillian does not advocate for others to adopt his extreme weight loss techniques. He told the website, “I don’t want it to say, ‘Cillian lost x amount of weight for the part.'”.
He continued, “You start to get a little competitive with yourself, which is unhealthy.
“I do not advise it.
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Kai Bird and Martin J. are the authors of the Oppenheimer movie, which debuts in theaters this Friday. The Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which was released in 2005.
It talks about Oppenheimer’s life (1904–1967), his attempts to build the atomic bomb during World War II, and his mental anguish as he dealt with “the moral consequences of scientific progress. ”.
