According to the anecdote that I bring you below, we could divide the actors into two classes: those who prefer to know all the details about the story, the universe in which the production is set and its characters, and those who do not. If we follow this system, everything seems to indicate that Cillian Murphy, who will premiere the highly anticipated ‘Oppenheimer’ this summer, is in the second group.
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For example, a curious button related to ‘The Dark Knight: The Legend Rises’, the third and final installment of Nolan’s comic trilogy in which Murphy returned to play the Scarecrow for the last time in one of the most iconic scenes of the film. But this return had a condition: Do not read the script of the tape to avoid spoilers and to be able to enjoy the projection.
This is how the interpreter told it in a conversation with the filmmaker published in Entertainment Weekly:
“I remember when you called me. You said, ‘Do you want to read the script?’ and I was like, ‘You know what? I don’t really want to read it. Just tell me what I’m doing, tell me what my motivation is, and then I want to watch the movie.’ I didn’t want to gut it. So I just went that day, did that little bit on that amazing set, and then I waited to see the movie. And it was worth it.”
It seems that good old Cillian has repeated his strategy in ‘Oppenheimer’, refusing to study basic physics to prepare for his role as the father of the atomic bomb; his new collaboration with a Christopher Nolan who has confessed that his favorite scene of Murpy as the Scarecrow it is, precisely, that of ‘The legend is reborn’.
“I just think that in a world of lawlessness, the last judge you’d want to go before would be Jonathan Crane.”comments the director before assuring that Crane “never died” after ‘Batman Begins’, which allowed him to bring him back in the third part: “He was just conveniently out of the picture somehow. That’s why I was able to call you up and say, ‘Go back and put the jacket on your head one last time.'”.
In addition, the filmmaker explained How did you manage to convince the studio? that Murphy, who also auditioned to play Bruce Wayne, was the one to don the cowl of the Batman villain.
“Everyone was so excited watching you perform that when I said, ‘Okay, Christian Bale is going to be Batman, but how about Cillian to play Scarecrow?’ There was no objection. All the previous Batman villains had been played by big stars: Jack Nicholson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Carrey… that kind of thing. It was a big leap for them and it was really because of that excuse. That’s how you got to play Scarecrow.”
The next July 21Cillian Murphy will premiere the aforementioned ‘Oppenheimer’, a title in which he will work for the first time as the protagonist in a Nolan house brand production; a wish fulfilled that he never expressed publicly.
“I’ve always said publicly and privately, to Chris, that if I’m available and you want me to be in a movie, I’ll be there. I don’t really care about the size of the role. But deep down, secretly, I was desperate to play a role. main to him.”
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