Posted on 07/19/2023 7:50:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Cillian Murphy ate "an almond a day" to get his gaunt J Robert Oppenheimer look.
The Peaky Blinders actor, 47, has refused to say how he lost weight for the part as the father of the atomic bomb in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer film, but his on-screen wife Emily Blunt, 40, has now revealed how he made his transformation.
Emily, who plays Kitty Oppenheimer, told Extra: "He had such a monumental undertaking. And he could only eat, like, an almond every day.
"He was so emaciated."
Cillian told The New York Times in May: "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."
But the actor told in a more recent chat with The Guardian he did not want to spread headlines about how he lost weight for the Oppenheimer role.
He said when asked how he slimmed down so much: "You become competitive with yourself a little bit which is not healthy. I don't advise it."
His Guardian interviewer said he refused to say how many kilograms he lost, or what food the nutritionist told him to cut out.
Cillian added: "Ach, no. I don't want it to be, 'Cillian lost X weight for the part.'"
But he did admit he was burning a huge amount of energy filming the project, adding: "It's like you're on this f****** train that's just bombing. It's bang, bang, bang, bang.
"You sleep for a few hours, get up, bang it again. 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."
In reality, Oppenheimer — killed by cancer in 1967 — subsisted on little more than Chesterfield cigarettes and double-strength martinis with their rims dipped in lime.
Cillian said: "Cigarettes and pipes. He would alternate between the two. That's what did for him in the end.
"I've smoked so many fake cigarettes for Peaky and this. My next character will not be a smoker.
"They can't be good for you. Even herbal cigarettes have health warnings now."
I eat lots of chocolate covered almonds and I don’t look Gaunt.
Uh, he was skinny already. Scarecrow in Batman movies.
“My good friend Hunter did help me out a little with moral support ...”
A year and a half ago, I had to have suspenders for my tool belt…no waist.
LOL, okay, that post make it fine to read about Oppenheimer!
My father got that beat. He worked 40 hours a week as a welder in an automobile parts factory. Hollywood can go Brandon itself.
Murphy also acknowledged he’s completely frontally exposed in the movie.
Who wants to see that!
Not me
Cillian Murphy was always skinny. See “Sunshine” or 28 Days Later.
I enjoy his acting.
Dam dude was skinny already. Beanpole.
Regarding Cillian Murphy, the guy is fairly slim to begin with. Peaky Blinders!!
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No interest in seeing a movie about a traitor red spy.
Lol! Very good! How many will get it?
Sam Waterston was the best Oppenheimer ever in the PBS series 30+-years ago. He was truly iconic in that role, almost like channeling the man. Few actors get it as “right” as they did “back in the day.”
His fellow actor Christian Bale did something similar in the movie, “The Machinist”. He was literally skin and bones.
just an almond a day, or in addition to whatever else he was eating?
I’d like to lose weight but i am not crazy.
So this fool starves himself to look like a guy who lived decades ago and only a handful of Americans could pick out of a lineup while the same Hollywood thinks nothing of making Snow White a transexual grotesque parody of what we know and love.
Oh in case you didn’t know it, the anti-American scumbags in Hollywood are on strike or something and it’s been about three months since they started this rant.
I guess nobody cares.
What else did he eat with the almond?
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