Christopher Nolan Explains Why He Cast His Daughter as a Burn Victim in ‘Oppenheimer’

Sure, the “Oppenheimer” cast features just about everyone in Hollywood, but writer-director Christopher Nolan also opted to keep it all in the family for the ensemble film.Nolan revealed to The Telegraph UK that he cast his own college-aged daughter Flora Nolan as a nameless woman who, according to the piece, appears in “a hellish, conscience-pricking vision, in which the flesh is flayed from her face by a piercing white light” as a result of the atomic bomb.

Cillian Murphy portrays scientist J.

Robert Oppenheimer, who developed the nuclear weapon.“We needed someone to do that small part of a somewhat experimental and spontaneous sequence,” Nolan said of casting New York University Tisch School of the Arts student Flora, “so it was wonderful to just have her sort of roll with it.” (Flora Nolan is credited on IMDb as a “burn victim” and also appeared briefly in Nolan’s 2014 “Interstellar.

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