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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