Emily Blunt & Matt Damon: OPPENHEIMER

we knew because you came down to hang out with John right after Nolan had been over and met Matt and given Matt the script to read so I knew that Matt was meeting him and I mean any chance any of us could get to like work with him were all sort of champing at the beach what was kind of funny was that he came to we live in the same apartment building and so he came to see me and he knew that he was going to Emily with with the part but he didn't want it to seem like he was just kind of One Stop Shop One Stop shopping so he bumped into John in the in like either the elevator or the lobby and John talked to him for a half an hour just kind of director to director you know they're talking shopping and Chris later admitted that he knew he was coming to Emily with the part but he waited like it was like five days or something and knew she was going to be in LA and then she came over and to his house and read the script and he didn't want sort of convenient casting rumors you know that it was like who else is in your building who else in his building he's got that level that attention to detail that you know Stanley Kubrick had you know where it's like no detail is too small his like depth of knowledge his research his understanding of all the Dynamics at Play Between all these different characters and ways to just get these ideas and succinctly like and fit them into a movie I mean the the book that this is adapted from is like a Tome and it is dense with like I mean the fine print I remember it was like I needed reading glasses to even read the book it was just very thoroughly researched and he somehow was able to kind of get all of it into this film but but what that means is that each frame is entirely packed full of information I mean you could watch this movie ten times and get something different because it's just so rich and dense and he kind of on set I just feel his command of Excellence is so vast and everyone just has to match him where he is and I don't find Chris exacting I think people have used that word and I don't find him that way I find him really curious and interested in what you might bring or do and you recognize he's cast you for a reason he lets you know that and then wants to see what Wings you have you know and I think he's exacting in some ways I think he's exacting about some details oh yeah like he sweats the small stuff and I want to work with the director who sweats the small stuff I want him but in terms of performance you're totally free that's freely free he really wants to see such Authority on set like I mean he he appears to be very calm I'm sure there is a storm of information going on inside of him but it's all clad in this sort of quite Serene uh exterior you know that he's really fascinating and he's funny yeah people don't know that about Chris he's really fun the vibe on set is really uh we nobody says it out loud but everybody's feels really lucky to be there yeah and so you just get this Spirit you know from every Department like everybody's killing it everyone's doing everything they can you know working till you are bone tired because you you don't you want to leave it all on the field you know because that's what he does he's very demanding of himself yeah um and so without having to say anything you know you just see that and you kind of take your cue from that and you work you know in a similar vein he's a big guy Chris he's tall he's like he's he's imposing as a figure I don't know how he is able to be invisible you don't I didn't notice him standing by the camera staring at me like he's somehow able to disappear it was cool he's like like those directors you know before we had video Village I mean that's what Coppola said to me 30 years ago he said the the antonioni the the Italians taught him that the where you sit is right next to the camera and at the and you see it with your naked eye as you understand human behavior and you feel it because you feel it and you turn to the operator who's the only one who's looking through the lens and and you just check in and make sure that they saw what you saw and they'll give you a little nod and and you know you've got it and that's how movies were made until you know whenever the monitors came around and you get that sense with him that his decision of when he has the take and when he's happy is not led by the visuals it's led by the feeling he has he's so English he's the most English person I've ever met like he's he's like my family I don't want to tell him this but he looks like my uncle like it's all quite funny watching him but that there will be no no sort of superlative praise it will be like yeah happy good yeah okay moving on and you're like okay that's it I saw it with Robert and and with John and with Robert's wife Susan and it was very emotional watching it and I felt like I was inside of it I felt like the arms of the movie came out and wrapped around me and pulled me right into it it was bone shattering watching it I just loved it yeah me too me too it's great it's overwhelming it was like the experience I had reading the script that feeling just was magnified by the by the film um you know the how overwhelming it was you know because the film It Was Written in in the first person which I'd never seen before and so it it just it just pulled you in and and you had this really subjective experience that was really overwhelming and it was like a runaway train that you're on it's so exciting watching it incredible

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Length: 5min 55sec (355 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 08 2023