Her superb efficiency in Oppenheimer might have led to an Oscar nomination for Emily Blunt – however it’s a brutal scene viewers won’t ever see which in the present day leads her to apologise to co-star Cillian Murphy.
Blunt, 40, says the pair had been filming some of the tense moments of the film when director Christopher Nolan informed her to slap Murphy’s face time and again.
“Sorry about your cheekbone Cillian,” Blunt mentioned, per The Sun.
“Poor Cillian. Chris went, ‘Hit him’. And I was like, ‘I don’t know’. And Cillian was like, ‘Do it, do it’. Chris was like, ‘He’ll be fine … do it’.
“I slapped him then I grabbed him, by the neck really, by the collar.
“I just saw over the course of, like, ten takes that very famous cheekbone became even more prominent — and it’s not even in the movie.”
Blunt, who performs Kitty, the spouse of Cillian’s physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, says the pair had been already tense.
The scene was a part of one of many greatest of the movie concerning the American who performed a pivotal function within the growth of the primary nuclear weapons, the place she says the road: “You don’t get to commit sin and then ask all of us to feel sorry for you when there are consequences.”
“I was aware on the day that we didn’t have long, just slightly aware of it, of the tension building on set,” Blunt defined of the aforementioned scene.
“And it’s such a challenging scene for Cillian because he has to be sort of gibbering incoherently, so you stagger through it in rehearsals and you know it’s going to start ratcheting up the more you do it.”
Blunt additionally admits that her actions away from the digicam led to Murphy, 47, needing medical therapy throughout filming in New Mexico.
Traditionally, film stars give one another a present at first and finish of filming. As she grew involved for her co-star’s sleep with such a demanding function, she purchased him a “fantastic” pillow.
But she says: “He’s going to kill me for telling this story.
“I was very concerned about Cillian’s sleep when we started shooting because I felt he had a monumental undertaking with this role. I thought, like, that’s a good start-of-shoot gift.
“He told me he woke up in the middle of the night and he was so thrilled to fluff himself back to sleep on the pillow, that he sort of threw his head down back on to it and smashed his head open on the bedside table.
“He was luxuriating in it so much he smashed his head open.
“So he came to set and they had to glue his head shut, all because of the pillow.”
At the tip of filming, Murphy gave Blunt a bottle she “almost killed him with” in one other violent scene.
The pair have remained agency pals, and on March 10, will each be up for Oscars on the ceremony in Los Angeles.
The blockbuster has nominations in 13 classes, with Murphy up for Best Actor and Blunt Best Supporting Actress, her first nomination.
“He was an amazing scene partner,” Blunt continued.
“I love Cillian, Mr Ocean Eyes, so much. He’s a wonderful friend.
“He’s captivating. He’s mesmerising in this role.
“Everything was such a masterclass watching him.”
This story initially appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission
Source: www.news.com.au
