Everyone loves a good flashback – especially in movies and television series when we see our favorite characters as their younger selves.
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Matt Damon has been going hard in the past few years, working as an actor, a producer, a screenwriter — sometimes all at once. So it's not too surprising that the celebrated Oscar-winner might want to take a little break.Recently Damon sat down at a panel discussion for 's «Around the Table» segment — where he was joined by his co-stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Robert Downey Jr., and director Christopher Nolan.At one point, Damon admitted that he'd promised his wife he wanted to take a hiatus, right before signing on to star in Nolan's World War II-era drama.«This is going to sound made up, but it's actually true,» Damon shared.
"[I] negotiated extensively with my wife that I was taking time off.«According to Damon, he and his wife, Luciana Barroso, were in couples' therapy when they had the discussion — and Damon actually added a loophole into the agreement they came to.»I had been in, and then Chris put me on ice for a couple of movies, so I wasn't in the rotation," Damon said, referring to his key cameo in Nolan's 2014 sci-fi drama. «But I actually negotiated in couples therapy -- this is a true story — the one caveat to my taking time off was if Chris Nolan called.»«This is without knowing whether or not he was working on anything, because he never tells you,» Damon added.
«He just calls you out of the blue. And so, it was a moment in my household.»Because of that unexpectedly fortuitous caveat, Damon got cast as Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, who oversaw the Manhattan Project and the development of the nuclear bomb in a film that is already getting heavy awards season buzz even before its release.
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.Everyone loves a good flashback – especially in movies and television series when we see our favorite characters as their younger selves.
Christopher Nolan has explained why some audience members may have difficulty hearing the dialogue in Oppenheimer.The movie, which stars Cillian Murphy as Robert J. Oppenheimer — the real-life American physicist who played a pivotal role in the creation of the atomic bomb — has received rave reviews and become a box office hit, but some fans have raised complaints about the film’s sound quality.Nolan’s films have long been criticised for hard-to-hear dialogue, with The Dark Knight Rises and Tenet being two notable examples.
TikTok user has used AI to imagine J. Robert Oppenheimer singing Aqua’s ‘Barbie Girl’ – check out the clip below.While advancements in artificial intelligence have become a growing concern for many (as seen in the Hollywood strikes), the technology has also spawned more trivial obscurities – such as Homer Simpson singing Arctic Monkeys and Seinfeld being recreated endlessly on Twitch.The latest celebrates the dual release of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, by blending theoretical physicist J.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has generated a lot of headlines due to its nudity and sex scenes, the first of the director’s career. Cillian Murphy, who plays the title character in Nolan’s biographical drama, was recently asked by GQ UK to weigh in on all of the buzz surrounding the “Oppenheimer” sex scenes, to which Murphy said they were “vital” to the film.
Christopher Nolan‘s biopic is the scene with the poison apple.At one moment in the film, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) is seen injecting an apple intended for his professor with poison, before having a change of heart and throwing it away.Nolan drew heavily from the 2005 biography American Prometheus, which suggests Oppenheimer could have been a murderer, but admits it is uncertain and there is no historical record of it happening.“When I talked to Chris Nolan, at one point he said something roughly like, ‘I know how to tell a story out of this subject.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Before Christian Bale landed the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy, the filmmaker screen-tested his “Oppenheimer” star Cillian Murphy. Both men have since admitted that Murphy was never a real threat to steal the part from Bale, and Murphy told GQ Magazine UK in a recent interview that it “was for the best” that Bale won the coveted role over him anyway. “Yes, I think it was for the best because we got Christian Bale’s performance, which is a stunning interpretation of that role,” Murphy said.
“Oppenheimer.”The Nickelodeon alum, who starred in the 2004 Nick sitcom “Drake & Josh” alongside Miranda Cosgrove as his bratty but cunning little sister Megan, made a cameo in the drama as physicist Kenneth Bainbridge.However, eagle-eyed fans noticed that Peck, 36, made his famous “Megan” face in the film.The expression has since gone viral in the years after the show ended in 2007, with memes showing Peck scrunching his face and squinting his eyes while saying “Megan” after the youngster pulled a prank on him.Viewers raced to social media this week to remark on Peck’s signature facial expression in Nolan’s three-hour biographical flick about the man behind the atomic bomb — J. Robert Oppenheimer (played by Cillian Murphy).“At one point in ‘Oppenheimer’, josh peck makes this exact face and it almost took me out of the movie,” someone wrote alongside the iconic photo.I FOUND IT pic.twitter.com/OdPzQqsQL8“I FOUND IT,” another fan screamed next to a side-by-side shot of Peck in the show and in the movie.“Ok my only actual Oppenheimer take is that it’s so unbelievably funny to be watching an intense period piece and have to be like “is that… josh peck?” one guffawed.One joked that Megan was the one who helped build the bomb discussed in the movie.
Entertainment Weekly reported.Oldman, 65, previously appeared in the Nolan-helmed “Dark Knight” trilogy. He is also known for his Oscar-winning portrayal of Winston Churchill in the 2017 film “Darkest Hour” and Sirius Black in the “Harry Potter” films.The Englishman’s presence in the hotly anticipated summer blockbuster was kept under wraps — Oldman did not walk the film’s red carpet when it premiered on July 11.
Cillian Murphy has explained how director Christopher Nolan helped him “unlock” J. Robert Oppenheimer in preparation for the role.The actor, who plays the theoretical physicist in Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer, referred to an “amazing phrase” the director used to describe the complex historical figure.Speaking in an interview with NME, Murphy said: “Chris used this amazing phrase.
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Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent The double SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes are worrying exhibitors in France, where the box office is driven by Hollywood blockbusters. In an interview with French news channel BFM Business, Richard Patry, who presides over the National Federation of Cinemas, predicts “the strike might go on for a long time” because it’s aimed at streaming services. “Many U.S. films have already started to be delayed, and it worries us a lot for 2024,” Patry said. The dearth of U.S. releases during the pandemic hurt the French box office, which was down by about 30% in 2022. Even if French movies have a large market share domestically, U.S. blockbusters typically drive an upward trend. Case in point: the French B.O. finally recovered this year and has been up 33%, bolstered by a spike in anticipated American movies, which skyrocketed from 29 in 2022 to 51 in the first five months of 2023, according to Comscore France.
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Christopher Nolan’s brother Matthew Nolan was previously accused of being a hitman in 2009.The famed director, whose 12th feature film Oppenheimer arrives in cinemas this week, has two brothers; his younger brother Jonathan Nolan (known for co-creating Westworld) and an older sibling called Matthew Nolan.The latter was previously arrested and charged in 2009 for the murder of accountant Robert Cohen in Costa Rica. A judge, however, refused to extradite Nolan to Costa Rica to stand trial on kidnapping and murder charges, ruling that there wasn’t sufficient evidence that he was a contracted killer.As summarised in court documents, a man named Luis Alonso Douglas Mejia was initially convicted of the murder in 2005, but Costa Rica claimed Nolan was involved as a “hired killer”.“Costa Rica contends that Mejia contacted the accused [Nolan] and for a still undetermined amount of money, hired his services, both of them planning the manner in which they would deprive the victim of his freedom, in order to later murder him,” a summary on casetext reads.As reported by Q Costa Rica in 2014, Nolan is said to have been introduced to Cohen in 2005 by millionaire gem dealer Robert Breska.
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is a kinetic thing of dark, imposing beauty that quakes with the disquieting tremors of a forever rupture in the course of human history.
Matt Damon is a big fan of Christopher Nolan’s work. The actor, who’d previously worked with the legendary director in the film “Interstellar,” revealed that he treasured the experience so much that he included it in an acting break deal he’d made with his wife while attending couple’s counseling. Matt Damon gets a tattoo dedicated to his late father, then gives his first tattooBen Affleck and Matt Damon talk about the first time they met Michael JordanMatt Damon’s emotional moment with wife Luciana Barroso: ‘She really helped me’A post shared by Oppenheimer (@oppenheimermovie)In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Damon got personal about his relationship to Nolan and his relationship with his wife Luciana Barroso.
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Matt Damon vowed to his wife that he would take some time off from Hollywood with only one stipulation – if he got an offer from Christoper Nolan, he would take it. The 52-year-old actor admitted that after the promise was made to Luciana Barroso, he received a call from the esteemed director with an opportunity to join the cast of the widely anticipated "Oppenheimer," which, true to his word, he accepted. "This is going to sound made up, but it’s actually true," Damon began.
Matt Damon has been going hard in the past few years, working as an actor, a producer, a screenwriter — sometimes all at once. So it's not too surprising that the celebrated Oscar-winner might want to take a little break.Recently Damon sat down at a panel discussion for Entertainment Weekly's «Around the Table» segment — where he was joined by his co-stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Robert Downey Jr., and director Christopher Nolan.At one point, Damon admitted that he'd promised his wife he wanted to take a hiatus, right before signing on to star in Nolan's World War 2-era drama.«This is going to sound made up, but it's actually true,» Damon shared.