Christopher Nolan defends steamy ‘Oppenheimer’ sex scene as ‘essential’
nypost.comtold Insider. The dramatic departure from Nolan’s usual style — his films famously avoid sex and nudity — has fans hot and bothered. “Knowing Nolan he’ll sprinkle a dash of making out with a teaspoon of moaning and call it a day,” one fan snarked on social media.“I’m worried Christopher Nolan didn’t know what sex is and he had the actors stand naked pressing their thumbs to each others foreheads,” another joked.
The movie, out July 21, is a biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), “father of the atomic bomb.” The supporting cast is a who’s who of famous faces, including Matt Damon (who broke a promise to his wife in order to appear in the film), Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, and Emily Blunt.
Christopher Nolan’s movies are seen by some as cold and sterile. Female characters are often a remote presence on the outskirts of the story.
Nolan’s Batman and Joker were both chaste. Tom Hardy’s smirking dream thief character in “Inception” kept his clothes on. The science-y biopic seems a less than sexy choice for the director’s first, reportedly “prolonged” steamy scene, which happens between Murphy’s Oppenheimer and lover/physician Jean Tatlock (Pugh).
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