Robert Downey Jr. Says Cillian Murphy Was 'Meant To Play' Oppenheimer
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00:00 - We're in a race against the Nazis.
00:01 - Allegedly, the man survived
00:03 on just martinis and cigarettes.
00:04 So what kind of diet did Killian have
00:07 in order to achieve that?
00:09 - Less.
00:09 (laughing)
00:10 - Even less.
00:12 - I stayed off the martinis.
00:13 - Right before we started shooting,
00:14 I saw this photograph that Chris had said,
00:16 "Yeah, I think Killian's got it."
00:18 And I looked and I was like, "That's Oppenheimer."
00:20 And then I was like, "Damn it,
00:21 I better get my ass together now."
00:23 - What's the nature of the device they detonated?
00:25 - Data indicates it may have been
00:27 a plutonium implosion device.
00:29 - Like the one you built at Los Alamos.
00:32 - Robert's character, Louis Strauss,
00:34 was the commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission
00:37 and had a rocky relationship with Killian's Oppenheimer.
00:40 - It's very interesting, the relationship.
00:41 It's very, very complex.
00:43 And they kind of dance around each other all the time.
00:46 And that was the pleasure of working with Robert.
00:48 I remember I said to you,
00:49 it felt at times a bit like kind of jazz
00:51 when we were just acting up.
00:53 It was kind of, it was buzzy.
00:55 There was this kind of vibrations.
00:57 - The world will remember this day.
01:00 - So Oppenheimer, obviously very conflicted
01:03 about his notoriety and for obvious reasons.
01:06 But when it comes to you, when it comes to Killian Murphy,
01:09 are you ready to embrace the accolades
01:11 that are coming your way?
01:13 The Oscar buzz? - That was gonna be
01:13 my question. - All, see?
01:16 - No, no, no, no, no.
01:17 No, I don't think about that.
01:18 You know, I was just so happy to make the movie,
01:20 to be acting with all these incredible actors.
01:22 The script was genuinely one of the best scripts
01:24 I'd ever read in my life.
01:26 - You were meant to play this character, dude.
01:28 And I'm sorry, but your life is gonna change a little bit.
01:31 - Thank you.
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