Director Christopher Nolan explains why he let his actors improvise on the set of Oppenheimer, breaking from his norm of script-focused shooting.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan explains why he let his actors improvise on set. Depicting the life of legendary physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in creating the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer features a star-studded acting team including Cillian Murphy, Florence Pugh, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Kenneth Branagh, and Robert Downey Jr.
Each actor was coming to the table with research about what their real-life counterpart had been. They had tons of homework to do. [Laughs] They had a great resource with “American Prometheus.” They then did their own research and what it meant for me, which isn’t something I’d ever really been able to do in the past. So, for example, with the scene in the section classroom with all the scientists, we would be able to improvise the discussion.
For example, there’s a moment where James Remar, who played [Henry L. Stimson, Truman’s secretary of war], kept talking to me about how he learned that Stimson and his wife had honeymooned in Kyoto. And that was one of the reasons that Stimson took Kyoto off the list to be bombed. The Superstar Cast Behind Oppenheimer Was Up for the Challenge Nolan’s creative process is fascinating here, especially when considering where Oppenheimer sits within his filmography. Prior to Oppenheimer, Nolan directed predominantly large-scale sci-fi and action fare, save his one other historically-based movie with Dunkirk. Oppenheimer is the first biopic that Nolan has taken on, and as such it makes sense that the manner in which the research was done was so essential to Oppenheimer.
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