Al Pacino tried to get Christopher Nolan to say hello to his perfect take.“Oppenheimer” director Nolan recalled in The Los Angeles Times that while filming 2002 thriller “Insomnia,” Pacino shut down his direction on set.
“Insomnia” was Nolan’s last R-rated film prior to upcoming historical feature “Oppenheimer,” starring Cillian Murphy as J.
Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist behind the atomic bomb.“I had gone up to Pacino after a series of takes and given him a note on what I wanted,” Nolan said of “Insomnia,” continuing, “He told me, ‘I’ve already done that.
You can’t see it to the eye, but I’ve done it on the dailies.’ I looked for it and I was like, ‘Oh, my God,’ because there it was.”The “Interstellar” director added, “Great film actors can do that, and that’s what I had with Cillian.”Nolan looked back on his 25-plus-year career,…
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