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'Oppenheimer' is touted as one of the highly anticipated films of 2023 as filmmaker Christopher Nolan teams up with a stellar star cast, including Cillian Murphy and more. The upcoming American biographical film 'Oppenheimer' stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who is known as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his work on the Manhattan Project, which produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Given the enormously large budget of millions provided by Universal Pictures, it was natural to assume that the cast would also receive higher pay for their acting.

According to the reports that point to Cillian Murphy's substantial fortune, his payment for the role of 'Oppenheimer' is quite high. What's even more surprising is that, despite the presence of Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr. in the film, Murphy ultimately won with a bigger cheque.

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Reports stated that Cillian Murphy has been paid a high amount of $10 million for the lead character of J. Robert Oppenheimer in the movie. However, Matt Damon downgraded his fees to work alongside Christopher Nolan.

Here’s how much the other cast members of Oppenheimer charged:

Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer – $4 million

Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss – $4 million

Matt Damon as Leslie Groves – $3 million

Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock – $1 million

Benny Safdie as Edward Teller – $700,000

Michael Angarano as Robert Serber – $500,000

Josh Hartnett as Ernest Lawrence – $400,000

About 'Oppenheimer'

The film is based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin about J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons on the Manhattan Project. The movie also highlights the race against time that the Americans faced to complete their bomb before Nazi Germany could finish building theirs.

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