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#574 — Laura McGann, Christopher Nolan

The Empire Film Podcast

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The Man Who Met Oppenheimer

I have to say that struck me that felt to me like an SNL sketch of what a Chris Van Olin sex scene. Emily Blunt, though, is brilliant in this film. I do also think she has more to do as the film goes on. And she has some pretty good chewy material to get into at the end. She does. Robert Arne Jr. very, very good in this. He plays someone who met Oppenheimer basically post-war and has an effect on his career at that point. That's Einstein. Fucking amazing. Matt Damon, I thought was was a real breath of fresh air as the sort of military liaison for the Manhattan Project.

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