Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is shaping up to be a career-defining role for Cillian Murphy.
The longtime Nolan ensemble member stepped into a lead role in one of the auteur’s films for the first time, and his nuanced performance as atomic bomb inventor J.
Robert Oppenheimer has made him an early Oscar frontrunner.
You could even say that Oppenheimer was a role that Murphy was born to play.As it turns out, Murphy came close to portraying the infamous nuclear physicist in another project nearly a decade ago.
One of the most recent dramatizations of the Manhattan Project was the WGN TV series “Manhattan,” which featured Daniel London in a reoccurring role as Oppenheimer.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, showrunner Sam Shaw and writer Lila Byock revealed that they cast a wide net when searching for the right actor to play father of the atomic bomb.
Other candidates included Beck,…
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