This film is so good,
and I know I'm
not the only person who thinks that you only have to go on Twitter
or anything to see that everyone thinks this.
I'm going to ask, When at what point do you, as actors,
know you're on to win, that you've had some great hits in your career
as early as the script stage.
Is it on set or is it usually when you've seen the finished product?
I feel like with most films it's the leap into the great unknown.
That feeling of like putting your feet to the fire,
I think on a Christopher Nolan
film, it's when you get when you hear, Hi, it's Chris Nolan, and you're like,
Oh my God, You know, I think there's I think we knew we were making something
rare.
And I think you know it when he calls and you know it when you read the script
and it's his passion, it's his conviction, it's his surety that's so inspiring
and his vast, colossal talent that you get to kind of bathe in and be around.
And but I think I was completely floored when I saw the film,
and I think I have found it to be one of his most emotional ones.
I think it really leaves people feeling distraught.
And I'm so proud.
I think that nobody can almost be likened to Oppenheim in a sense
that there's no kind of conventional way of thinking in his respective fields.
He wants to push boundaries
and do the kind of things that people still haven't seen before
because of that kind of intelligence.
I've always found the prospect of meeting him
may be kind of intimidating when you collaborate with him.
Is that creative intelligence that comes through in kind of conversations
or is that something that really may need comes through in his art?
What's so strange about Chris is that he's got this
magnificent brain that's equal parts left and right.
So he's got this engineering brain that kind of,
you know, can make this this spectacle and this kind of scale
and scope in these movies that are just as big as anything being made.
And he can ask these really profound questions.
But he's got this you know, he understands the intimacy and he understood
he's got a really high IQ, So he understands like the emotion
and so super approachable.
Like he.
Yeah, well, he loves a gossip.
Yeah. No, he's a variation on that.
But I was telling him this story the other day and he was
gonna have to hear this stuff like, you just loves that as well.
Like he's
he and the way he is with actors, he creates an environment where you are
not intimidated.
It's the last thing he wants is for you to be intimidated by him.
He just expects you to just be there
to be a part of this sort of forcefield he's created for everyone.
And he's he's gentle, he's quiet, he's collaborative.
He's really curious.
So I think he's very he's creatively curious.
Well, there's somehow he's able to keep the vision
of what he's trying to do because he's got a very strong eye.
He really understands what he's doing and why,
but he's great at collaborating and teasing out the best in everybody
and and in real time, incorporating that into this thing that he's building.
It's it's awesome.
I mean, you both work with some incredible filmmakers and actors.
I mean, obviously, Chris, not another to add to this list
at this stage in your career, do you still have like wish lists?
There's still people that you you just really would love to work
with and collaborate with actors and filmmakers.
Oh, endless, yeah.
Constant, constant.
I can't even think of any of them. But. But I would if I could.
This list is very long.
If I could just work with the people that I've worked with,
I would be completely satisfied at this point.
To Emily Blunt,
if I could just do all my movies with Emily, you would be super happy.
But I mean, for you,
it's quite unique actually, because I think there's
a kind of maybe misconception where you almost feel
there's a kind of contrast between a scientist and a kind of soldier.
And I think your character,
this kind of blend that shows the worlds can collide in some ways.
I just wondered if that was quite interesting.
Collide is a good word because philosophically
they're pretty opposed in the sense that the military is obsessed
with secrecy, and the scientists were obsessed with kind of openness
so that they could they could do their work.
And and so that was a natural tension.
But I think Groves kind of straddled the two, understood
that he needed the scientists, understood he was very smart.
He went to MIT. He was a very
smart guy.
But and so it perhaps was a little more permissive.
And Oppenheimer could appeal to that side of him,
you know, to say, like, look, I know we need compartmentalization,
but we also need to be sharing information or we're not going to get there
nose for those in this.
If that was kind of our reverence for the scientists.
But then do you think that our relationship
with experts or scientists has changed across the last few decades?
Sure, I think certainly with scientists, but probably because
the applications were so
the applications
had bearing on on everybody's life.
You know, to say, our greatest scientist is working on the biggest bomb
during the middle of a pitched battle
between fascism and democracy, you go, okay, I understand that.
And the scientist, you know, is a hero who can figure that out.
You know,
now I think it feels like everything's diversified into these smaller sciences
that probably are less kind of top of brain for people.
So the scientists have become maybe a little more anonymous, but
they shouldn't be.
Yeah.
You know, it's just one of the million themes that made this film so good.
So thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you.