Matt Damon and Emily Blunt on Reuniting in 'Oppenheimer' and Why the Set Felt Like Summer Camp (Exclusive)
etonline.comEmily Blunt and Matt Damon are reuniting in, director Christopher Nolan's new epic, which stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project during World War II and is often credited as «the father of the atomic bomb.»Oppenheimer's life and work was full of complex characters, and Nolan has assembled a star-studded cast to tell the complicated story.
Blunt stars as Katherine «Kitty» Oppenheimer, who was a German-American biologist and botanist and a member of the Communist Party of America, in addition to being Oppenheimer's wife.
Damon plays Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr., the Army Corps of Engineers officer who directed the Manhattan Project for the government.Both stars told ET's Rachel Smith how excited they were to work together again — though they don't share much screen time — particularly on a Nolan film.«I mean, he is such a groundbreaking, extraordinary director — I would have done one scene.
I mean, I would have done anything,» Blunt raved. «I think everyone felt that. You see all the cast that are in this movie and there's the huge, vast, ranging number of actors who showed up for him.
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