Cillian Murphy addresses rumour that he ate only one almond a day on Oppenheimer, says he didn’t socialise with cast and crew during filming

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Dismissing the rumour that he consumed only almonds for dinner during the filming of Oppenheimer, Murphy said, “This is apocryphal. I think Emily (Blunt) was being very sympathetic to me when she said Cillian only ate one almond a day. It was more than that. I didn’t really have room in my brain to be socialising with the rest of the cast and crew at the time, because there was so much work to do, and I was reducing calories and all that stuff. I didn’t go out for dinner, but I had more than one almond a day.”

Murphy also answered if his opinion about Oppenheimer, the man responsible for the creation of the world’s first atomic bombs, altered after filming. He said, “I felt that he was intensely human, and I felt that despite his one-in-a-million, generational genius, he was still as flawed and as contradictory and as fallible as the rest of us are. I treated his brilliance less like a gift and more as a burden, in order to play the humanity of him.”

Oppenheimer was released alongside Barbie last year, and ended up becoming the third-biggest hit of Nolan’s career. The film grossed $960 million worldwide, and future re-releases will almost certainly help it pass the $1 billion mark.