‘Oppenheimer’ star Matt Damon used his first big paycheck to pay for his mom’s Ph.D. program. Here’s what the film’s other stars spent theirs on

Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, and Florence Pugh on the red carpet for the premiere of Oppenheimer. (Credit: Henry Nicholls—AFP via Getty Images)

Cillian Murphy, the leading man in Oppenheimer who portrays the title character—a.k.a. “death, destroyer of worlds”—thinks he bought a sound system with his first big check. 

“I think I bought like a record player—or a sound system, cause record players weren’t as cool as they are now, were they?” Murphy told the Hollywood Reporter.