Cillian Murphy risked his life in this scene

One of the The biggest hits of the year, and a sure Oscar candidate, is oppenheimerfilmmaker Christopher Nolan Three-hour epic, captured on a 65mm camera, about the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimerthe administration of the Manhattan Project He created the world’s first atomic bomb.his anxiety at unleashing such a destructive force on the world and his subsequent persecution by the same American government that had celebrated his monstrosity that ended World War II.

And he is the Irish actor. Cillian Murphya frequent Nolan collaborator, who has been tasked with embodying the film’s tortured protagonist, and did so with such a fierce commitment to his craft that his own co-stars, including Robert Downey Jr. (playing Lewis Strauss of the United States Atomic Energy Commission), were amazed.

“I have never witnessed a greater sacrifice by a leading actor in my career,” Downey Jr. said. People of Murphy’s performance.

murphy said Rolling Stone UK the script for oppenheimer was “the best script I ever read” and capturing Oppenheimer’s genius proved to be a considerable challenge.

“With that intellect, which I think can actually be a burden, you don’t see things on the normal plane that we see. Everything is multifaceted and about to collapse. “It would be a terrible way to buy milk or mow the grass, I would say,” she offered.

On November 21, oppenheimer will be released on Blu-Ray and is packed with never-before-seen extras. In this exclusive clip from the Blu-Ray, Murphy and the film trick Coordinator George Cottle reveals how dangerous a particular scene was in which Murphy’s Oppenheimer climbed a giant ladder to the bomb in the New Mexico desert while the wind crossed it:

“Climbing the tower was fantastic because I remember that day, in history, there was supposed to be a storm… and then the storm comes. That’s typical Chris. He will sit actually,” Murphy explains in the behind-the-scenes clip, adding about the staircase: “Everything was shaking.”

But Murphy, in classic style, may be underestimating him. According to Cottle, things were much more treacherous than that.

“Was scary”, he attests. “It was a long walk and he was wearing a suit and leather-soled shoes.”