Oppenheimer’s Cillian Murphy Defends His ‘Powerful’ and ‘Perfect’ Sex Scenes With Florence Pugh
usmagazine.comCillian Murphy praised Oppenheimer costar Florence Pugh — and their graphic sex scenes.“Those scenes were written deliberately,” Murphy, 47, told the Sydney Morning Herald in a recent interview conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike. “He knew that those scenes would get the movie the rating that it got.
And I think when you see it, it’s so f–king powerful. And they’re not gratuitous. They’re perfect. And Florence is just amazing.”Murphy gushed over his 27-year-old costar’s screen presence. “I have loved Florence’s work since Lady Macbeth and I think she’s f–king phenomenal,” the Ireland native added. “She has this presence as a person and on screen that is staggering.
The impact she has [in Oppenheimer] for the size of the role, it’s quite devastating.”Pugh’s small but memorable Oppenheimer role includes several explicit scenes — and the steamy shots were director Christopher Nolan‘s first sex scenes ever.
In the sequences, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Murphy) and his mistress, Jean Tatlock (Pugh), are mid-coitus when Jean starts asking about the scientist’s book collection.
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