Christopher Nolan seemingly included a horrifying detail in Florence Pugh’s Oppenheimer scenes. The actor plays Jean Tatlock in the movie, who was J. Robert Oppenheimer’s (Cillian Murphy) partner before his marriage to Kitty Oppenheimer (Emily Blunt).
As we learn in the film, Oppenheimer and Tatlock remained in contact in the years following his marriage, and was a particular point of interest to the FBI investigating the physicist’s apparent links to the Communist Party. Shortly after one of their meetings, audiences learn that Tatlock died by suicide.
