7/16/2023 0 Comments Song best days of my lifeOppenheimer has an impressive ensemble cast which also includes Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Emily Blunt, Gary Oldman, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett and Casey Affleck. So it was incredibly exciting, and daunting, and terrifying, all at the same time." There was no preamble or anything, I just got the call. "I'll always turn up for Chris, no matter what the part is, but, secretly, it's a dream to play a lead part," Murphy added. While Murphy added: "It was one of the best days of my life, I'll tell you that, when you called me. In the same chat with Entertainment Weekly, Nolan said of the upcoming film: "To be able to pick up the phone, and call you, and be like, 'This is the one where you carry the movie and really get to show what you can do,' it's honestly one of my favourite moments in the movie business, when I had that conversation with you." Robert Oppenheimer, the US theoretical physicist credited as 'the father of the atomic bomb'. The Irish actor takes on the challenging lead role of J. ![]() Nolan and Murphy's sixth project together in two decades is the upcoming biopic Oppenheimer. Murphy has featured in a total of five Nolan movies since then – all three Dark Knight trilogy films plus Inception (2010) and Dunkirk (2017).īut he's never played the lead role in any of these films – until now, that is. So that's how you got to play Scarecrow." New movie Oppenheimer "That was a big leap for them and it really was purely on the basis of that test. "All the previous Batman villains had been played by huge movie stars: Jack Nicholson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Carrey, that kind of thing. Nolan continued: "Everybody was so excited by watching you perform that when I then said to them: "Okay, Christian Bale is Batman, but what about Cillian to play Scarecrow?" READ MORE - Irish actor Cillian Murphy hates being photographed by fans and finds it 'offensive' READ MORE - Matt Damon calls Cillian Murphy 'phenomenal' in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer We did those screen tests very elaborately, on 35mm, with a little set." "But I really wanted to get on set with you, I wanted to get you on film. In a recent chat between the duo for Entertainment Weekly, Nolan said: "When we had our first conversation I think both of us knew that you weren't going to wind up playing Batman. The pair have been frequent collaborators ever since the British director cast Murphy in his 2005 movie Batman Begins as the villainous Scarecrow.Īt the time, the Cork actor had already appeared in 28 Days Later, but was still a relative unknown in Hollywood, with the Inception director inviting studio executives to his screen test for the lead role of Batman to see what he could do. ![]() Irish actor Cillian Murphy says filmmaker Christopher Nolan gave him 'one of the best days of my life' by asking him to play the lead in his new film Oppenheimer.
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