This Friday, Christopher Nolan’s 3-hour biopic of J Robert Oppenheimer lastly hits cinemas.

The acclaimed director, who will most likely lastly win a Best Director Oscar for the epic, solid his longtime collaborator and virtually Batman Cillian Murphy because the Father of the Atom Bomb with piercing blue eyes.

In actual life, Oppenheimer was an extremely skinny, chain-smoking boozer who just about didn’t eat very a lot and died at simply 62.

The Irish Peaky Blinders star was gifted half a 12 months to organize for the half, that can most likely additionally lastly win him a Best Actor Oscar.

Yet to embody the Manhattan Project physicist, the 47-year-old needed to take some excessive measures for such a bodily transformation.

Speaking with The New York Times, Cillian stated: “I love acting with my body, and Oppenheimer had a very distinct physicality and silhouette, which I wanted to get right. I had to lose quite a bit of weight, and we worked with the costume and tailoring; he was very slim, almost emaciated, existed on martinis and cigarettes. He had these really bright eyes and I wanted to give him this wide-eyed look, so we worked on his silhouette and expressions a lot before starting.”

The Oppenheimer star told The Guardian: “You become competitive with yourself a little bit which is not healthy. I don’t advise it.”

He wouldn’t reveal precisely how a lot weight he misplaced however discovered the speedy 57 shoot so exhilarating he stopped worrying about consuming and barely slept.

Cillian added: “I was running on crazy energy; I went over a threshold to where I was not worrying about food or anything. I was so in it, a state of hyper… hyper something, but it was good because the character was like that. He never ate.”

His co-star Emily Blunt who performed the physicist’s spouse Kitty Oppenheimer advised Extra: “He had such a monumental undertaking. And he could only eat, like, an almond every day. He was so emaciated.”

Oppenheimer hits cinemas on July 21, 2023.