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Robert Downey Jr, left, as Lewis Strauss and Matthew Modine as Vannevar Bush
Cillian Murphy plays the titular J Robert Oppenheimer in the film written, produced and directed by Christopher Nolan. All Photos: Universal Pictures
Matt Damon plays Leslie Groves in Oppenheimer
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Damon, left, and Murphy in the film
Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock and Murphy
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Robert Downey Jr plays Lewis Strauss
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Josh Hartnett as Ernest Lawrence
Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer
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From left, Murphy, Olli Haaskivi as Edward Condon, Damon and Dane DeHaan as Kenneth Nichols
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DeHaan in the film
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Jason Clarke as Roger Robb
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Robert Downey Jr, left, as Lewis Strauss and Matthew Modine as Vannevar Bush
Cillian Murphy plays the titular J Robert Oppenheimer in the film written, produced and directed by Christopher Nolan. All Photos: Universal Pictures
Matt Damon plays Leslie Groves in Oppenheimer
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Damon, left, and Murphy in the film
Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock and Murphy
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Robert Downey Jr plays Lewis Strauss
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Josh Hartnett as Ernest Lawrence
Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer
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From left, Murphy, Olli Haaskivi as Edward Condon, Damon and Dane DeHaan as Kenneth Nichols
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DeHaan in the film
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Jason Clarke as Roger Robb
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Robert Downey Jr, left, as Lewis Strauss and Matthew Modine as Vannevar Bush
Oppenheimer: Cillian Murphy and Christopher Nolan on why humanity needs this story now
Irish actor Murphy, who plays the eponymous physicist, tells The National why the film 'speaks to what's happening in the world, geopolitically'
Chris Newbould
17 July, 2023
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