Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy on shooting the sex scenes in the film: “No one likes doing them, they’re the most awkward possible part of our job. But sometimes you have to get on with it.'
to weigh in on all of the buzz surrounding the “Oppenheimer” sex scenes, to which Murphy said they were “vital” to the film. The film depicts sex between Oppenheimer and Jean Tatlock , a physician with whom Oppenheimer had a romance with before and during his marriage to Katherine Puening .
“When you look at Oppenheimer’s life and you look at his story, that aspect of his life, the aspect of his sexuality, his way with women, the charm that he exuded, it’s an essential part of his story,” Nolan said. “It felt very important to understand their relationship and to really see inside it and understand what made it tick without being coy or allusive about it — but to try to be intimate, to try and be in there with him and fully understand the relationship that was so important to him.
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