{"id":34956,"date":"2023-07-18T18:46:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1860260"},"modified":"2023-07-19T02:42:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:42:23","slug":"cillian-murphy-gives-opinion-on-oppenheimer-i-tried-not-to-judge-him","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/cillian-murphy-gives-opinion-on-oppenheimer-i-tried-not-to-judge-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Cillian Murphy gives opinion on Oppenheimer: \u2018I tried not to judge him\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Peaky Blinders star explains how he doesn’t have “one consistent” opinion on the ‘father of the atomic bomb’. <\/p>

By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 18 July 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Cillian Murphy has the biggest film role of his career so far in Christopher Nolan\u2019s hotly-anticipated Oppenheimer<\/a>, with the Peaky Blinders<\/a> star portraying the titular scientist in the three-hour epic.<\/p>\n

The film serves as a deeply immersive \u2013 and densely detailed \u2013 character study of the man credited as the \u2018father of the atomic bomb\u2019, exploring his psyche before, during, and after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.<\/p>\n

Oppenheimer is presented as an incredibly complex man with conflicting emotions, and so you might wonder how much Murphy\u2019s own view on the physicist changed throughout the process.<\/p>\n

But when posed this question during an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a> \u2013 which took place before the current Screen Actors Guild strike<\/a> \u2013 the Irish actor explained that he was actually the worst person to answer it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was so immersed in it,\u201d he said, \u201cand so involved in it, and I was trying not to judge the character at all times, and just trying to kind of understand it and give Chris [Nolan] the raw materials for his script.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI have lots of kind of varying opinions on him, but not one consistent.\u201d<\/p>

Meanwhile, Florence Pugh \u2013 who plays one of Oppenheimer\u2019s romantic partners, Jean Tatlock \u2013 agreed that it was hard for those involved in the film to form a concrete opinion on the man.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think, for me, with any character that you play, you have to be their number one fan,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have to defend them, you have to be able to discuss where it is that they\u2019re at.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that even goes into the people that they come across. So, yeah, I think you have to be a supporter in all aspects of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock and Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer.<\/span><\/figcaption> Universal Pictures<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

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