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Christopher Nolan’s hugely-anticipated biographical thriller, Oppenheimer, made its big screen debut yesterday.
Aside from him bagging the cream of the crop of actors from Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey jr, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett and Casey Affleck to Rami Malek and Kenneth Branagh, the story, based on Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin’s 2005 biography, American Prometheus, is a drawcard.
It centres on J Robert Oppenheimer (Murphy), a theoretical physicist who played a pivotal role in developing the first nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project, becoming synonymous with the Atomic Age.
At a recent press junket, Murphy shed light on him
