Cillian Murphy ate just one almond a day for ‘Oppenheimer’, says actress

the irish actor Cillian Murphy adopted a strict diet to give life to scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, in the film “Oppenheimer“, directed by Christopher Nolan and which will hit theaters this Thursday (20).

According to the actress emily blunt , who plays the character’s wife in the plot, Murphy limited himself to eating just one almond every day to prepare for his role. “He could only eat, like, one almond every day. He was so thin, ”she told the program“ Extra! ”.

The 47-year-old actor himself told The New York Times in May of this year that he had to work hard to get to the character’s profile.

“I love acting with my body and ‘Oppenheimer’ had a very distinct physicality and silhouette that I wanted to get right,” said the actor.

“I had to lose a lot of weight and we worked with costumes and tailoring”, said Cillian, who did not detail numbers, but spoke how the clothes he wears in the feature also helped in the construction of the American physicist, considered the father of the atomic bomb.

The star also commented that the rhythm of the recordings helped him to get even more into character.

“It’s like you’re on a speeding train. It’s bang, bang, bang. You sleep for a few hours, get up, do your job again. I was full of this crazy energy. I got to a point where I wasn’t worrying about food and stuff anymore… But that was good because the character was like that too. He never ate,” he told the vehicle.

In a report on the best paid actors in Hollywood in 2022, the magazine “Variety” revealed that the production of the film will be of US$ 100 million, about R$ 479.1 million, and that Emily Blunt, Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr. received US$ 4 million to participate in supporting roles, an amount well below what they normally receive, just for the “privilege of working with Nolan”.