Something a viewer might instantly note about Christopher Nolan’s new hit biopic “Oppenheimer” is that the film’s star, Cillian Murphy, doesn’t look an awful lot like J.
Robert Oppenheimer.
Murphy has an intense gaze and a bird-like demeanor, carrying — in many of his roles — both a brisk openness and a mysterious threat.
Oppenheimer himself, meanwhile, looked more like a beleaguered dad, a scientist who carefully thought about what he said.
Eventually, in later interviews, he looked beaten down by the enormity of what he was asked to do.
Murphy, an immensely talented actor, captured all the emotional beats correctly and even altered his physical mannerisms, but one would hardly confuse the two men should they be in the same room together.Murphy has previously spoken about how he had been eagerly awaiting the phone call from Nolan, asking him to appear as a lead in one of the director’s movies.
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