'Oppenheimer' director Christopher Nolan joins stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., and Matt Damon for EW's Around the Table.
Category
🛠️
LifestyleTranscript
00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - Mine was a slower courtship process
00:08 'cause he knew for sure I was gonna say yes no matter what.
00:11 (laughing)
00:12 I went over to his house, I read it.
00:15 I don't wanna complain,
00:16 but it's on red paper printed in black,
00:21 which is kind of difficult.
00:25 - And a bit unnerving as well.
00:27 - Yeah, I guess there's something about it
00:29 that makes it that you forget it as soon as you read it.
00:31 I don't know what those colors are.
00:33 It's that thing, you read the script,
00:36 it's written in the first person,
00:37 you're transported and it's a journey to read it.
00:40 And then at the end of that,
00:42 the guy who wrote the script you just read
00:44 is asking you if you wanna do it.
00:47 - I was so blown away by the script.
00:50 Again, Robert says it's in the first person,
00:52 which I'd never seen before.
00:53 So rather than say Oppenheimer crosses the room,
00:57 it says, I walk across the room.
00:59 In the present tense.
01:00 So it has that, it has a visceral effect on you
01:04 and it pulls you right in.
01:05 Which is the point, he's trying to tell his readers,
01:09 aka us and his crew, this is the feeling of the movie.
01:12 It's gotta go through the subjective lens of this character
01:15 and that's what it entirely rests on that.
01:18 And I was so kind of floored by how good it was
01:22 that the only thing I said, he said, "What do you think?"
01:24 And I said, "I have no notes."
01:25 - So snobby.
01:26 - Which to me is-- - So snobby.
01:28 - It's the highest compliment you can pay.
01:29 - No, it's a terrible-- - And Chris was so--
01:31 - Reductive thing to say.
01:32 - When Emily read it and Em was gushing about it
01:35 and she was very articulate, Chris said,
01:36 "Well, that's better than what Matt said."
01:38 (laughing)
01:40 But I was trying, I didn't, I was, you know,
01:43 because you're a little stunned when you go,
01:45 I have no notes, I don't know what to say to you.
01:49 I can't believe, this is amazing.
01:50 Which is, you know, how I felt watching the film as well.
01:54 (upbeat music)
01:57 (logo thudding)
01:59 [BLANK_AUDIO]