JRobertOppenheimer's grandson CharlesOppenheimer shares the part he “liked the least” in Oppenheimer, says it “was a problem” in the biography in which the film was based on
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Charles Oppenheimer — the grandson of the late J. Robert Oppenheimer, whom Christopher Nolan’s new film “Oppenheimer” is centred on — hasThe founding member of The Oppenheimer Project, 48, has been doing press to help promote the film — now playing in theatres — including an interview with“I was bracing myself for not feeling great about [the movie], even though I talked to Chris Nolan and was very impressed by him,” Charles told the publication.
” he revealed, referring to the scene where Robert — portrayed by Cillian Murphy — poisons his professor by injecting cyanide into an apple. The moment is featured in the 2005 biography of his late theoretical physicist grandfather — who died in 1967 — in which the movie is based on.carefully enough, the authors say, ‘We don’t really know if it happened.’ There’s no record of him trying to kill somebody,” Charles explained. “That’s a really serious accusation and it’s historical revision.
“In the movie, it’s treated vaguely and you don’t really know what’s going on unless you know this incredibly deep backstory,” he continued. “So it honestly didn’t bother me. It bothers me that it was in the biography with that emphasis, not a disclaimer of, this is an unsubstantiated rumour that we want to put in our book to make it interesting.”“I thought Einstein‘s conversation with Oppenheimer at the end was really effective even though it wasn’t historical.
In part of promoting the film, Charles recently joined his family members for a conversation hosted by The Atomic Museum on Thursday at the Beverly Theater in Las Vegas.
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