“Those s*x scenes were written deliberately”: Cillian Murphy Defends Controversial S*x scenes With Florence Pugh in ‘Oppenheimer’
Intimate scenes in movies or any form of media can potentially hurt the feelings of others in many ways for which they even express the way they are hurt. People have varying moral and ethical values, and explicit scenes may conflict with their personal beliefs, leading to discomfort and them ending up being dissatisfied and annoyed by the movie. Recently this has happened with one of this Century’s greatest ongoing Movies.
This scene of reading a religious book while having intercourse hurt the feelings of some. This has been taken up by almost all the social media handles protesting against the scene.
Cillian Murphy calls the S*x Scene “Perfect”
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Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, regarding Oppenheimer and its cast Murphy explained about the s*x scenes and said:
“I think when you see it, it’s so f**king powerful. And they’re not gratuitous. They’re perfect. And Florence is just amazing.Those scenes were written deliberately.”
he believed that those scenes will get the movie rating it has now and he admitted that he’s been a big fan of Florence Pugh for a few years now.
“I have loved Florence’s work since Lady Macbeth and I think she’s f**king phenomenal. She has this presence as a person and on screen that is staggering. The impact she has [in Oppenheimer] for the size of the role, it’s quite devastating.”
“When you look at Oppenheimer’s life and you look at his story, that aspect of his life, the aspect of his se**ality, his way with women, the charm that he exuded, it’s an essential part of his story”.
He continued by praising Robert Downey Jr. who plays Lewis Strauss, a former naval officer and initial ally of Oppenheimer’s who later turns against him and becomes a key figure in revoking his security clearance at the controversial 1954 Atomic Energy Commission hearings.
“Downey is so super smart and has incredible insights and is incredibly emotionally available. But the way I work, I don’t really like talking about it too much. I don’t see the benefit of it,”.
Murphy added while talking about Downey.
The Scene was found inappropriate by many
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The s*x scene in Christopher Nolan’s big hit movie Oppenheimer is creating a lot of irritability in India and has led to protests. The film was passed with a U/A certificate by India’s Central Board of Film Certification in which Cillian Murphy as Robert Oppenheimer and Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock Pugh. Pugh stops during intercourse, gets up, and goes over to the bookshelf, picks out a copy of the “Bhagavad Gita” and asks Murphy to read from it. Murphy reads the line “I am Death, destroyer of world”.
Meanwhile, the film is a box office success in India, grossing $3.6 million in its first two days of release, comfortably outperforming “Barbie,” which collected $1.2 million.
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