Oppenheimer: Fans defend Florence Pugh and Cillian Murphy’s age gap
The IndependentGet our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Oppenheimer fans have defended Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh against those “griping about the age gap” between the co-stars. “If you’d told me that between Barbie and Oppenheimer, one would start online discourse about on-screen age gaps and the other would lead to international controversy rooted in 1940s Asian geopolitics, never in a million years would have I guessed which one would yield which,” one person joked, referencing the Barbie movie’s ban in Vietnam. No need to infantilise her and remove her agency.” “If you’re griping about the age gap between Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh then you are in fact s***ty to women,” another added. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free Someone acknowledged that while there are “not enough stories for older women and too many icky age gap romances” – as films often cast younger women alongside older male actors – they pointed out that both “issues” weren’t applicable to Oppenheimer.
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