Irish actor Cillian Murphy plays the lead role in Christopher Nolan's movie 'Oppenheimer'. Ahead of the film's release on July 21, Murphy revealed in an interview that he read the Bhagavada Gita to prepare for his role in the film.
“I did read the Bhagavad Gita in preparation, and I thought it was an absolutely beautiful text, very inspiring. I think it was a consolation to him (Oppenheimer), he kind of needed it and it provided him a lot of consolation, all his life,” Murphy told Sucharita Tyagi in an interview.
The film 'Oppenheimer' is tells Robert Oppenheimer's story and it is based on Kai Bird and the late Martin J Sherwin's Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer'. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist, and he is credited to the "father of the atomic bomb".
Oppenheimer was also a student of the Sanskrit language. He had even quoted from the Bhagavada Gita, after successfully testing the first atomic bomb in the world. "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds," he had said.
Meanwhile, Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' is said to be his longest film.
