Director Christopher Nolan’s latest feature Oppenheimer takes us into the tremendous yet troubled mind of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), exploring the events of his life and the crucial role he played in the development of the atomic bomb. Always standing by his side throughout every battle (whether that be at the Los Alamos facility or at a tense hearing) is wife Kitty, played by the ever brilliant Emily Blunt.
The fierce Kitty Oppenheimer isn’t there to hold her husband’s hand. Instead, she is the driving force. Kitty repeatedly uses the word "fight" in her conversations with Oppenheimer, continually urging him to push forward in not only his work on the Manhattan Project, but in his later clashes with politicians. "Why won’t you fight?" Blunt’s Kitty firmly asks, not through exasperation but instead passion, being Oppenheimer’s biggest champion. She isn’t exactly frustrated by Oppenheimer’s sometimes unwillingness to stand up for himself, Kitty detests the way the world is treating her husband, and what that is turning him into.
