Josh Harnett joins the cast
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Yesssss, my boy
My first thought was Oppenheimer's brother, he is definitely an important person in his life and for the narrative in "American Prometheus".
I read josh also turned down an offer to play Superman in a reported $100 million three-movie deal, his agents must have been pulling out their hair.Allstar wrote: ↑January 4th, 2022, 4:03 pmhttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/a ... pher-nolanJosh Hartnett: I regret turning down Batman role
The actor claims he wishes he had worked with director Christopher Nolan instead of fearing being pigeonholed at a young age
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Josh Hartnett's role has been just confirmed by Variety:
Oppenheimer” stars Emily Blunt as biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as Gen. Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey, Jr. as Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber and Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence.
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Oppenheimer" Production NotesErnest Lawrence
Josh Hartnett
When physicist Ernest Lawrence met Oppenheimer, they became immediate friends; Oppenheimer was drawn to Lawrence’s gregarious, extroverted personality.
To play Lawrence, Nolan chose Josh Hartnett, no stranger to big films that tackle the morality of war and military heroics, having played an Army pilot in Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor and an Army ranger in Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down.
Returning to movies after taking time off to focus on raising kids, Hartnett re-engages the genre that made him a star through a different kind of character. “I knew a bit about Oppenheimer, but not Lawrence and how he was instrumental in creating nuclear weapons and what is now our 21st century dilemma,” Hartnett says. “He’s the most important and impressive historical figure from the 20th Century that I knew nothing about. He developed the cyclotron, developed the concept of big science, he basically gave birth to what is now the super-collider. Everything has changed because of this guy and his tinkering.”
Hartnett drew inspiration from his great uncle, a physicist who worked on the Gemini space program that put Americans on the moon, and the actor consumed as much research as he could find on Lawrence. “I wanted to make sure Lawrence didn’t sound contemporary, and that he was a person of his time and place,” Hartnett says. “Luckily, I come from the same place as Lawrence. He went to school in Minnesota, and I grew up in Minnesota, so I know what people sound like there. And growing up in a family with a scientific background helped me understand a guy who was steeped in academia and had been given a long leash to push the boundaries of what was possible.”
Hartnett focused his performance by emphasizing everything in Lawrence that Oppenheimer wasn’t. “One of the things I learned was that Lawrence was the kind of guy who would have been everybody’s first choice to lead the Manhattan Project. He was outgoing, he was a people person, he was good at fundraising—all these things that frankly Oppenheimer wasn’t naturally gifted at,” Hartnett says. “That helped me in getting a good perspective on the character, because the last thing I wanted to do was play Lawrence as a scientist. He’s a human being who was distinctly different than the scientists around him, most notably Oppenheimer.”
Shooting on location in New Mexico was energizing for Hartnett. “When I first started filming, a significant portion of us were staying in this little hotel, which was just a bunch of cabins lined up next to each other,” Hartnett says. “After work, everybody would just come back and eat dinner together; it felt so family-like, and so unlike movies these days. It was just this massive amount of people coming together in this tiny, little place working hard to do this important film, and yet it just felt casual and easy. It was one of the best experiences of my career.”
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Keep these coming!