The new, dramatic second trailer for “Oppenheimer” teased by Christopher Nolan’s next project was not a hoax. The preview featured an Einstein moment in addition to the return of an elderly-looking Robert Downey Jr., who appears opposite Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves.
Around the 1:24 time in the trailer, we see what looks like J. Robert Oppenheimer (Murphy) meeting a man who is clearly physicist Albert Einstein. Einstein doesn’t seem too happy about their meeting. Einstein was confused about a time in history that he would later come to regret, and this shot shows that well.
Einstein told President Franklin D. Roosevelt that the Nazis were working on an atomic bomb and urged a reaction. However, he was not allowed to join the Manhattan Project, and many people blamed him for the start of the nuclear age. “Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in developing an atomic bomb,” he told Newsweek later, “I would have done nothing.”
Actor Tom Conti has been tapped by director Christopher Nolan to play the role of the guy who carried this burden. A brief break in the video suggests that Nolan is confident in Conti’s acting abilities. Here is the official tweet from Christopher Nolan Art & Updates revealing Tom Conti in the role of Albert Einstein.
First look at Tom Conti as Albert Einstein in 'OPPENHEIMER'. pic.twitter.com/MowY55YdiO
— Christopher Nolan Art & Updates (@NolanAnalyst) May 8, 2023
In His Second Nolan Picture, Tom Conti Plays Albert Einstein
As noted by Looper, Tom Conti plays Einstein in Oppenheimer. Tom Conti, who played Bruce Wayne’s cellmate in “The Dark Knight Rises,” has established himself in a number of notable roles on both the big and small screens in the 11 years since their last collaboration.
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Scottish stage performer Conti made a strong impression in Ridley Scott’s first feature film, 1977’s “The Duellists.”In 1983, he co-starred with David Bowie in the prisoner of war drama “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” (Bowie would later play another important scientific genius in a Nolan film, Nikola Tesla in “The Prestige”).
In the ’90s, Conti appeared in two episodes of “Friends,” demonstrating his versatility, as the father-in-law of Ross’s second ex-wife, Emily, who boasted that he could kill people with his thumb. He also played the judge in “Paddington 2” who gets a bad haircut.
There are no details about how much screen time Conti will have in “Oppenheimer,” but Einstein’s letter to Roosevelt is often mentioned as the spark that started America’s study of nuclear weapons, so he’ll probably be seen early on. The film “Oppenheimer” is set to premiere on July 21.
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