Hollywood star Emily Blunt said Cillian Murphy skipped meals with the cast as he faced enormous pressure filming Oppenheimer.
The actress opened up about working on the highly anticipated movie with Cork star Cillian.
Speaking to People, Blunt shared fond memories of filming the movie in the New Mexico desert.
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“We were all in the same hotel,” she said. “We only had each other. Me and Matt were roommates and were like, ‘Let’s go to have dinner.’”
Comparing the environment to “summer camp”, Blunt, however, acknowledged that Murphy’s experience wasn’t so carefree.
“The sheer volume of what he had to take on and shoulder is so monumental,” the A Quiet Place star said. “Of course he didn’t want to come and have dinner with us.”
“He couldn’t. His brain was just too full,” Damon added.
Jumping into clarify, Murphy said: “You know that when you have those big roles, that responsibility, you feel it’s kind of overwhelming.”
Murphy stars as nuclear scientist J Robert Oppenheimer in the film, which is released this month, with a significant subplot involving his relationship with psychiatrist and physician Jean Tatlock, played by Florence Pugh.
The Peaky Blinders star revealed he has scenes of “prolonged full nudity scenes” in the Christopher Nolan film, but couldn’t give too much away about the plot.
However, he did disclose details on the film’s chemistry tests between him, Pugh and Blunt, who portrays Oppenheimer’s wife Kitty.
“They put two actors in a room to see if there’s any spark and have all the producers and director at a table watching. I don’t know what metric they use, and it seems so outrageously silly, but sometimes you get a chemistry, and nobody knows why,” he said.
