Oppenheimer’s ‘Incredibly Fast’ Shoot Left Cillian Murphy Completely Immersed

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Oppenheimer’s ‘Incredibly Fast’ Shoot Left Cillian Murphy Completely Immersed

Actor Cillian Murphy has commented on how fast Oppenheimer took to film and how that affected his acting experience.

Murphy portrays J. Robert Oppenheimer in director Christopher Nolan‘s latest historical thriller. This movie is a three-hour epic that features Murphy in the titular role. It is Nolan’s longest movie, and recently, Murphy shared details on what it was like to work with the British director on their sixth movie together after The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and Dunkirk.

“If you do anything intensely for 17, 18 hours a day like we were working on Oppenheimer – it was an incredibly fast shoot, it was like 57 days we shot the whole thing – if you do anything that intensely for that length of time a day, it’s gonna affect you,” Murphy tells Deadline. “And then also I had to get really skinny for it so I wasn’t really eating, so you get to this very sort of hysterically lucid state of mind, but it’s an amazing feeling – you feel completely immersed in it and completely focused in it.”

“Chris moves at a really fast pace, there’s no one standing around kind of shooting the shit or talking,” Murphy continues. “When you come on the set at 7 and you wrap at whatever time, it’s constant work – there’s no waiting around cause Chris knows exactly what he wants and he moves at an incredibly fast pace so he expects everyone else to move at that pace, but you feel wonderfully exhausted at the end of it.”

Does Oppenheimer have a post-credits scene?

No, Oppenheimer does not have an end-credits scene.

The cast includes Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Michael Angarano, Josh Hartnett, Kenneth Branagh, Dane DeHaan, Alden Ehrenreich, Matthew Modine, Jack Quaid, David Dastmalachian, Jason Clarke, Josh Peck, Devon Bostick, Gary Oldman, and Casey Affleck.

Oppenheimer releases on Friday, July 21, 2023, by Universal Pictures.