The actors had 'tons of homework to do' to flesh out their real-life characters, Christopher Nolan said
in a scene where Cillian Murphy’s Oppenheimer is meeting with a group of government officials to decide where in Japan to drop the atomic
bomb. The ensuing conversation already feels way too bros-palling-around for such a heavy decision, until U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson—played by James Remar—heightens that icky feeling to cataclysmic proportions. The U.S. shouldn’t destroy Kyoto because of its culture, but also because he and his wife honey
mooned there, he says. Remar delivers the line with the same level of care he’d use to describe the weather, a chilling distillation of the film’s entire project in just one sentence. It’s not just his performance that makes the moment so good, however. According to Nolan, Remar actually added the line himself (via the
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