Given the “Barbenheimer” craze that’s sweeping the world, Cillian Murphy, the star of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, was even asked if he would embrace the pink and play ‘Ken’ in a potential sequel to Gerwig’s now-historic blockbuster Barbie.
He responded,
Sure, yeah. Let’s read the script, let’s have a conversation.
Talking about if he had watched the Barbie movie himself, he stated, “I can’t wait to see [‘Barbie’]. I can’t wait to see the movie. I think it’s great for the cinema to get all these great movies happening this summer”.
Whether or not Cillian becomes a Ken remains to be seen. For now, he’s still processing everything that went into becoming J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who created the atomic bomb during World War II.
For the role, he went through dramatic isolation periods and weight loss during filming, so much so that Robert Downey Jr. aka Iron Man said he’s never seen an actor sacrifice more for a role than Murphy in “Oppenheimer.”
Cillian told the New York Times in May,
I love acting with my body, and Oppenheimer had a very distinct physicality and silhouette, which I wanted to get right. I had to lose quite a bit of weight, and we worked with the costume and tailoring; he was very slim, almost emaciated, and existed on martinis and cigarettes.
Barbie opened to a massive $162 million during its opening weekend, but Oppenheimer was no slouch. The film debuted to a huge $82 million, a staggering number considering Nolan’s latest is a talky, three-hour biographical drama.
“I think it’s just great for the industry and for audiences that we have two amazing films by amazing filmmakers coming out on the same day,” Murphy recently told the media. “You can spend the whole day in the cinema. What’s better than that?”
