The Oppenheimer actor consumed one almond each day. ‘.
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.”. The “father of the atomic bomb” is Robert Oppenheimer. “.
He had such a sizable project. 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.
The actors revealed that Cillian would avoid joining the cast for meals due to his strict diet in a separate interview with Matt Damon, who plays Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project.
Cillian was invited to dinner every night, but he never showed up.
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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Additionally, Cillian has been open about the “overwhelming” lengths he took to defend Oppenheimer, who he said depended solely on cigarettes and alcohol. He told the New York Times in May, “I love acting with my body, and Oppenheimer had a very distinct physicality and silhouette, which I wanted to get right.”.
He was extremely thin, almost emaciated, and lived solely off of cigarettes and martinis, he admitted.
“I had to lose quite a bit of weight, and we worked with the costume and tailoring,” he said.
Despite adopting an unhealthy method for character development, the Peaky Blinders actor acknowledged that playing Oppenheimer was so demanding that he didn’t have time to think about his lack of nutrition. “You’re riding a bombing [expletive] train. Bang, bang, bang, bang is what you can hear. You go to sleep for a few hours, then you wake up and bang it once more,” he told The Guardian.
The character was like that, so it was appropriate.
“I was running on wild energy; I crossed a level where I wasn’t concerned about food or anything.
He never felt peckish.
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Cillian has chosen to keep quiet about how much weight he lost for the role and does not advocate for others to adopt his extreme weight loss techniques. He told the website, “I don’t want it to be, ‘Cillian lost x amount of weight for the part.
You develop a little unhealthy self-competition, he continued. “I don’t suggest it. “.
The basis for the upcoming movie Oppenheimer, based on Kai Bird and Martin J. The Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. 2005 saw the release of Robert Oppenheimer.
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. “.
