<p>Actor Cillian Murphy admitted he went to unhealthy extremes while dieting for his titular role in the Christopher Nolan film &#8220;Oppenheimer.&#8221;</p>
<p>Murphy, who played the role of the physicist behind the race to develop the atomic bomb, said at one point he was actually <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/08/cillian-murphy-oppenheimer-christopher-nolan-florence-pugh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testing himself</a> to see how little he could eat and still function.</p>
<p>&#8220;You become competitive with yourself a little bit which is not healthy. I don’t advise it,&#8221; Murphy said, although he flat out refused to say which foods his nutritionist told him to cut out or how much weight he lost in total — mainly because he knew that would be the headline. &#8220;I don’t want it to be, &#8216;Cillian lost x weight for the part.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Murphy went on to explain that the pace at which Nolan filmed the project actually made it easier for him to skip meals without even realizing it.</p>
<p>&#8220;It’s like you’re on this f***ing train that’s just bombing. It’s bang, bang, bang, bang. You sleep for a few hours, get up, bang it again. I was running on crazy energy; I went over a threshold to where I was not worrying about food or anything,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was so in it, a state of hyper … hyper <em class="dcr-4hero5">something</em>. But it was good because the character was like that. He never ate.&#8221;</p>
<p>In real life, Oppenheimer – who died of cancer in 1967 — smoked constantly, switching between cigarettes and his pipe while occasionally punctuating the two with a martini.</p>
<p>&#8220;Cigarettes and pipes. He would alternate between the two. That’s what did for him in the end. I’ve smoked so many fake cigarettes for &#8216;Peaky [Blinders]&#8217; and this,&#8221; Murphy lamented. &#8220;My next character will <em class="dcr-4hero5">not </em>be a smoker. They can’t be good for you. Even herbal cigarettes have health warnings now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Although Murphy admitted to extreme dieting, it may not have been quite as extreme as costar Emily Blunt made it out to be. &#8220;He could only eat, like, an almond every day. He was so emaciated,&#8221; she said.</p>

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