‘Oppenheimer’ fans go wild as secret A-list cameo revealed on screen
nypost.comEntertainment Weekly reported.Oldman, 65, previously appeared in the Nolan-helmed “Dark Knight” trilogy. He is also known for his Oscar-winning portrayal of Winston Churchill in the 2017 film “Darkest Hour” and Sirius Black in the “Harry Potter” films.The Englishman’s presence in the hotly anticipated summer blockbuster was kept under wraps — Oldman did not walk the film’s red carpet when it premiered on July 11.
His castmates notably left the screening to go on strike. In the film, which tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb, Oldman appears as a jubilant President Harry S.
Truman, congratulating a guilt-ridden Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) on his achievement of building weapons of mass destruction.
The scene continues with Oppenheimer expressing that he has “blood on his hands,” a comment that reportedly angered Truman during the real-life meeting following the annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Prior to the release of the film, Murphy, 47, confirmed that the “State of Grace” actor would be a part of the film but did not specify the role Nolan, 52, had asked him to play. “For me, every day, I was working with the best actors in the world, every single day,” said Murphy during EW’s “Around the Table.”“You’d look at the call sheet and there’d be, like, Gary Oldman one day, and then Ken Branagh, and then these guys,” said the actor gesturing to co-stars Emily Blunt, Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr. “It was very hard to be cynical when you’re working with that level of talent.”The commercially successful flick, which The Post’s Johnny Oleksinski called a “masterpiece,” has stirred up some controversy.
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