Across every Christopher Nolan movie, Cillian Murphy has found a role in five of them, but for Oppenheimer, we know the actor will be front and center for the first time in one of the filmmaker’s films. The upcoming summer release will see Murphy portraying J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” and he recently spoke to finally nabbing a leading role in his sixth role in a Nolan movie.
Murphy’s paths first crossed with Nolan in 2003 when he was asked to screentest for Batman Begins, where he played the main villain of the film, Scarecrow. The actor went on to reprise the role in the rest of the Dark Knight trilogy. He was additionally cast in a key role in 2010’s Inception, followed by finding a small part in 2017’s Dunkirk. Ahead of Oppenheimer, Murphy had this to say:
