– Oppenheimer smoked and drank like a dragon. His relatives said he lived on nothing but pipes and martinis. He didn’t really eat,” Cillian Murphy told New Musical Express. The actor noted down all such details and used them in preparation for the role. It is impossible not to notice that he has lost a significant amount of weight – all this in order to empathize as much as possible with the figure of the “father” of the atomic bomb.
“He took turns reaching for cigarettes and a pipe”
Cillian Murphy, who played the titular scientist in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, knew very well that the character he played she took turns reaching for cigarettes and a pipedrinking all the martinis. Murphy told The Guardian that he had to smoke a lot of cigarettes on set – “fake” of course. The actor is a non-smoker. Still, many other challenges awaited him. In order to look better and more believable on screen, Cillian Murphy drastically lost weight.
The actor brought his body to the limit of endurance
Cillian Murphy decided to push his body to the limit – all in order to best prepare for the role. – I was competing with myself to see how little I could eat to survive. It wasn’t healthy. I don’t recommend it to anyone. I was running with some strange energy. At some point, I just stopped eating,” the actor told The Guardian. Emily Blunt, his film wife, also referred to the restrictive diet – or rather the hunger strike, which Murphy decided to do.
He did not eat with us, rarely left his room. We felt sorry for him that he could only eat an almond a day. He was so skinny
the actress told People magazine. The star himself confirmed that he took preparations for the role in the film very seriously and it was a difficult time for him, but he is not afraid of long-term health consequences.
Source: Gazeta
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