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Cillian Murphy playing Robert Oppenheimer is perfect casting


This is actually Cillian Murphy's 2nd time playing a nuclear physicist. He also played a nuclear physicist in the sci-fi movie Sunshine, about a space mission sent to restart the dying sun with a nuclear bomb. In preparation for that role he worked with English physicist Brian Cox to learn about advanced physics, toured the CERN facility and even learned to copy physicists' mannerisms.

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He really does look the part. It's startling.

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I don't believe he would be more perfect than Scarecrow in Batman Begins before I see it myself.

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