25 JULY, 2023
Debodinna Chakraborty
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Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, a highly charged film with an exceptional ensemble cast, has already made a big impact on the box office and is looking to be crowned as one of Nolan’s best yet.
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The ensemble cast play characters who actually changed the course of the world with the atomic bomb. Here's a look at some cast members and their real-life counterparts.
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Cillian Murphy shines as J Robert Oppenheimer in Nolan's film. he talked about portraying the "father of the atomic bomb" and the responsibility that comes with it.
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Emily Blunt plays Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, wife of J Robert Oppenheimer, who she accompanies to Los Alamos, New Mexico, for the Manhattan Project.
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Matt Damon portrays Army Corps Engineers officer Lt General Leslie Groves, who led the Manhattan Project under the Pentagon's instruction during World War II.
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Lewis Strauss, portrayed by Robert Downey Jr, collaborated with Oppenheimer on the bomb's development, but later urged an FBI investigation on Oppenheimer.
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Florence Pugh portrays Jean Tatlock, Oppenheimer's mistress, whose ties to the Communist Party jeopardised the physicist's position during the political investigations.
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Casey Affleck stars as a military intel officer, Boris Pash who was tasked with interrogating Oppenheimer and others for Communist Party ties.
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Kenneth Branagh portrays Niels Bohr, a genius in quantum physics who backed Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project, sharing the aspiration for nuclear progress.
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Gary Oldman’s role is limited to one scene in the film, where he portrays President Truman, who ordered the use of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
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Jason Clarke plays US attorney Roger Robb, who prosecuted Oppenheimer's security clearance hearing in 1954.
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Scottish actor Tom Conti plays Einstein, the famous physicist and a resident scholar at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Research, where Oppenheimer was director.