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Josh Hartnett has shared the “unhelpful” recommendation that Oscar-winner and co-star Matt Damon shared with him on the set of Oppenheimer.
The Christopher Nolan-directed film, swept up seven awards out of 13 nominations on the 2024 Oscars. It chronicles the profession of American theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer and his position within the improvement of the world’s first nuclear weapons in the course of the Second World Warfare.
The Pearl Harbour star performed Ernest Lawrence, a Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist who labored with Oppenheimer on the College of California in Berkeley.
“He gave me plenty of good recommendation,” started Hartnett on the Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon. “One specifically — one factor that was simply so unhelpful: He instructed me to not achieve the burden I’d already gained for the position.
“I gained about 30 kilos for the position, and he was like, ‘You’re by no means gonna get that off once more, man.’”
Damon portrays Common Leslie Groves, a United States Military Corps of Engineers (USACE) officer and the director of the Manhattan Venture, the identify given to the analysis and improvement initiative to develop the world’s first nuclear weapons, ensuing within the first atomic bomb.
Hartnett defined that the Good Will Looking actor has one piece of recommendation that he follows when taking over any new roles, “Don’t achieve weight over 40.”
“He’s like, ‘You’re gonna spend the remainder of your life making an attempt to get that weight off and it’s by no means gonna come off as a result of your physique’s gonna need to get that weight again on,’” Hartnett continued.
“‘You’re simply gonna continue to grow again out to that dimension, and also you’re going to try to get it off, nevertheless it’s simply gonna return. And he stored telling me, like, over the course of the manufacturing.”
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The Paradise Misplaced star joked, “I used to be like, ‘Thanks, Matt. Thanks for telling me this now. I’ve already gained it,’” Hartnett replied. “And now I don’t eat anymore.”
Oppenheimer went on to gross greater than $1billion on the field workplace upon its launch in 2023.
Nolan secured his first Academy Award as Greatest Director for the nuclear biopic, having been nominated 5 instances beforehand for movies together with Dunkirk (2017), Inception (2010), and Memento (2000).
He stored his acceptance speech largely industry-focused, thanking his stars, who’re “all on the high of their sport” and his “unimaginable crew” and reserved a particular shout out for his spouse, Emma Thomas, who has labored as a producer on all of his movies since 1997.
