Emily Blunt reveals that Cillian Murphy skipped most cast dinners to maintain his weight for his role in 'Oppenheimer,' she revealed that his diet included 'one almond' or 'a little slice of apple.'
The actor's traditionally intense visage is only made more dramatic by the sunken cheekbones and dour expression he wears as the theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project during World War II, who seemed to carry the literal weight of the world as he conducted experiments that could lead to the end of humanity.
"When Oppenheimer was running the Manhattan Project and they were doing their calculations, early on they saw the possibility that when they triggered the first atomic device, to test it, they might start a chain reaction that set fire to the atmosphere and destroyed the whole world,""A small possibility, [but they] couldn't eliminate it completely through theory, and yet they went ahead and they pushed that button," he continued.
Murphy is already receiving early Oscar buzz for his leading role, and his castmates told ET that thestar went so far as to isolate himself on set, forgoing cast dinners and restricting his diet to portray Oppenheimer., who plays Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr., the Army Corps of Engineers officer who directed the Manhattan Project for the government.
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