Matt Damon turned to Ben Affleck’s family to prepare for “Oppenheimer.”During the latest episode of “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?,” Damon revealed that he talked to Affleck’s Marine veteran grandfather about the reaction to Hiroshima and the dropping of the atomic bomb.
Damon portrays Manhattan Project military leader General Lesley Groves in the Christopher Nolan film.“I remember talking to Ben Affleck’s grandfather who was a Marine.
And he said, ‘When we heard about the bomb dropped, we cheered,’” Damon said, “and 50 years later, he’s telling you this and he goes, ‘I live with the fact that I cheered, because but this is what they were telling us, you know, that they were going to fight to the last man.’”To note, Affleck also starred in a WWII film, 2001’s “Pearl Harbor,” with “Oppenheimer” actor Josh Hartnett.Damon continued that it’s…
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