- Emily Blunt said working on "Oppenheimer" wasn't as "intense" as you'd think given the source material.
- Blunt described the set as "warm and fun and joyful," adding that Nolan was "rather casual."
Christopher Nolan may have a cell phone ban on the set of his movies, but Emily Blunt says her experience working on the director's latest film, "Oppenheimer," was a lot lighter than one may imagine.
"I think people would imagine it was terribly intense and we all walked around saying we are making an important movie with a capital 'I,' but it didn't feel like that," Blunt told Josh Horowitz on the "Happy, Sad, Confused" podcast when asked what it was like working on the Universal Pictures' biopic.
"It felt very warm and fun and joyful even though there's the inevitable intimidation factor of working with Chris Nolan and the awareness that you're gonna have to tighten the screws on yourself," Blunt said.
Blunt said Nolan creates a "rather casual attitude" on set, even when filming the biggest of scenes.
"Everything is calm. No chaos," Blunt said, adding the atmosphere even offered opportunities for laughter, something you may not expect on the set of the rather serious auteur. "There were plenty of LOLs on set."
"Oppenheimer," which has now grossed over $419 million worldwide, tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) and his involvement in the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Blunt plays Oppenheimer's wife, Kitty, who juggles raising two children while nursing a substance addiction.
"She was so fiery. She was so complicated — riddled with demons herself — and I think it's so cool to play someone who's sort of at war with herself really and a non-conformist for the 1950s housewife ideal," Blunt said of playing the character who isn't afraid to defend her husband when no one else will against a corrupt security clearance hearing late in the film.
Blunt is part of a stacked cast, which also includes Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Josh Hartnett, and more.