Cillian Murphy, a Hollywood actor, said he read the Bhagavad Gita as part of his preparation for the renowned filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, Oppenheimer. The actor embraced his process to play the titular theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, considered one of the fathers of the atomic bomb.
In the immediate aftermath of successfully testing the world’s first atomic bomb in 1945, Oppenheimer famously stated that he pondered a quote from the Gita. When the test concluded successfully, Oppenheimer, who was also a student of Sanskrit, thought, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Cillian Murphy was asked in an interview with the Indian media about Oppenheimer’s influence on sacred text and how he was inspired by it, as he shared his own inspiration for the work. “I did read the Bhagavad Gita in preparation, and I thought it was an absolutely beautiful text, very inspiring. I think it was a consolation to him, he kind of needed it, and it provided him a lot of consolation, all his life.” When asked about his learnings from the Bhagavad Gita, Cillian joked, “Well, don’t grill me on it!” The actor then added, “I just found it very beautiful.”
The historical drama, with Robert Downey Junior, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon and Florence Pugh playing the major roles, is based upon the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J Sherwin.
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