J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Grandson Charles Reveals Which ‘Oppenheimer’ Scene He Disliked
28.07.2023 - 21:15
/ etcanada.com
Charles Oppenheimer — the grandson of the late J. Robert Oppenheimer, whom Christopher Nolan’s new film “Oppenheimer” is centred on — has revealed one scene in the historical drama that he wouldn’t have included.
The founding member of The Oppenheimer Project, 48, has been doing press to help promote the film — now playing in theatres — including an interview with Time magazine, published earlier this week, where he discussed the scene at hand.
“I was bracing myself for not feeling great about [the movie], even though I talked to Chris Nolan and was very impressed by him,” Charles told the publication. “When I talked to Chris, at one point he said something roughly like, ‘I know how to tell a story out of this subject. There are going to be parts that you have to dramatize a bit and parts that are changed. As family members, I think you’re going to like some parts and dislike some parts.’ That’s probably led into my acceptance of the movie, even though I saw it very late, just when it came out. As a dramatized representation of the history, it was really largely accurate.”
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Though Charles thought the film was accurate, he added: “There are parts that I disagree with, but not really because of Nolan.
“The part I like the least is this poison apple reference, which was a problem in American Prometheus,” he revealed, referring to the scene where Robert — portrayed by Cillian Murphy — poisons his professor by injecting cyanide into an apple. The moment is featured in the 2005 biography of his late theoretical physicist grandfather — who died in 1967 — in which the movie is