Robert Downey Jr. jokes that Oppenheimer didn’t require a lot of makeup for his character's look. It's just that he’s gotten older.
"I had — not to get too personal — negotiated extensively with my wife that I was taking time off. I had been in, and then Chris put me on ice for a couple of movies, so I wasn't in the rotation, but I actually negotiated in couples therapy the one caveat to my taking time off was if Chris Nolan called. This is without knowing whether or not he was working on anything, because he never tells you. He just calls you out of the blue. And so, it was a moment in my household.
As a result, Damon can be seen in the film playing Groves, the general who oversaw the Manhattan Project, where the United States' atomic weapons were created, alongside costars Murphy as Oppenheimer, Blunt as the physicist's wife Kitty, and Downey as Atomic Energy Commission chairman Lewis Strauss..
"Chris' way of operating is that he just calls you out of the blue," says Murphy. "I genuinely had no idea. He said he was making a movie about Oppenheimer and he said, 'I'd like you to play Oppenheimer.' I had to sit down. It was kind of overwhelming." Nolan admits that his habit of phoning Murphy without warning to offer him roles does have a downside. "[It's] a fun way to do it," says the director to the actor. "But it means that it's very difficult to call you to go out to dinner or something. Because every time you answer the phone it's like, video, with Nolan, Murphy, Damon, Blunt, and Downey below.
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