Oppenheimer: Florence Pugh says Christopher Nolan apologised for the size of her role
The IndependentSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Pugh, 27, stars as psychiatrist and physician Jean Tatlock in the film about the life of the “father of the atomic bomb”, J Robert Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy in the lead role. “I didn’t really know what was going on or what it was that was being made,” Pugh told MTV UK about Oppenheimer in an interview conducted before the actors’ strikes. Even if I’m a coffee maker at a café in the back of the room, let’s do it.’” Pugh said she met Nolan in New York while filming Zach Braff’s 2023 drama, A Good Person. “And then he said, ‘We’ll send you the script, and honestly, you just read it and decide if it’s like… I completely understand the sizing thing.’ And I remember that evening when I got the script being like, ‘I don’t need to… I know I’m going to do it.’” Florence Pugh and Cillian Murphy in ‘Oppenheimer’ As Tatlock, Pugh stars in the first sex scenes of Nolan’s career in Oppenheimer.