The impact of bigger-than-life stories, particularly when grounded in real events, is widely acknowledged. Observing someone’s triumph over Herculean tasks can serve as a powerful motivator, not only inspiring a chain reaction of thought-provoking responses but a need to learn. Perhaps, to lay down too, considering the intensity of Christopher Nolan’s 3-hour-long Oppenheimer.
Already lauded as one of the best movies of the year, Nolan’s highly anticipated war drama has somewhat of the biggest A-list celebrity ensemble that the cinemagoers have seen since Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City which left quite a mark of its own in May. Besides Cillian Murphy, who plays the “father of the atomic bomb” himself, there’s also Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, among many others who joined the British-American’s biggest project to date.
#1 J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy)
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#2 Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey, Jr.)
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#3 Albert Einstein (Tom Conti)
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#4 David L. Hill (Rami Malek)
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#5 Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh)
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#6 Isidor Isaac Rabi (David Krumholtz)
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#7 Ernest Lawrence (Josh Hartnett)
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#8 Richard Feynman (Jack Quaid)
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#9 Frank Oppenheimer (Dylan Arnold)
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#10 Leslie Groves (Matt Damon)
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#11 Roger Robb (Jason Clarke)
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#12 Robert Serber (Michael Angarano)
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#13 Edward Teller (Benny Safdie)
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#14 Edward Condon (Olli Haaskivi)
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#15 Niels Bohr (Kenneth Branagh)
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#16 Katharine Oppenheimer (Emily Blunt)
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#17 Patrick Blackett (James D’arcy)
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#18 Seth Neddermeyer (Devon Bostick)
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#19 Enrico Fermi (Danny Deferrari)
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#20 Vannevar Bush (Matthew Modine)
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#21 Gale W. Mcgee (Harry Groener)
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#22 Kenneth Bainbridge (Josh Peck)
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#23 Hans Bethe (Gustaf Skarsgård)
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#24 Haakon Chevalier (Jefferson Hall)
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#25 Kenneth Nichols (Dane Dehaan)
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#26 William Whiting Borden (David Dastmalchian)
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