{"id":1976820,"date":"2023-07-18T22:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T02:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-dont-advise-it-cillian-murphy-admits-to-extreme-diet-for-oppenheimer-role\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T02:20:07","slug":"i-dont-advise-it-cillian-murphy-admits-to-extreme-diet-for-oppenheimer-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-dont-advise-it-cillian-murphy-admits-to-extreme-diet-for-oppenheimer-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Cillian Murphy confesses to extreme diet for &#8216;Oppenheimer&#8217; role: &#8220;I don&#8217;t recommend it.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-dont-advise-it-cillian-murphy-admits-to-extreme-diet-for-oppenheimer-role%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1976820&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Actor\u200d Cillian Murphy&#8217;s Extreme Diet\u200d for \u2064&#8221;Oppenheimer&#8221; Role<\/h2>\n<p>Actor Cillian Murphy revealed the unhealthy lengths he went to\u2062 while preparing for his \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wonka-director-describes-volume-of-chocolate-eaten-during-filming-a-miracle-that-timmy-remains-so-slim\/\" title=\"'Wonka' Director: Timmy's Slim Figure Despite Chocolate Binge is a Miracle\">titular \u2064role<\/a> in Christopher Nolan&#8217;s film &#8220;Oppenheimer.&#8221; Murphy, who \u2064portrayed the physicist behind the race to develop the atomic bomb, admitted that he\u2064 pushed \u200bhimself to see\u200c how little he could \u2064eat \u200cand \u200cstill\u200d function.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n \u2062 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You become competitive\u2064 with\u2063 yourself \u200da \u2063little bit, which is\u200c not healthy.\u2062 I don&#8217;t advise it,&#8221; Murphy cautioned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Murphy \u200brefused to \u200bdisclose \u2063the\u2062 specific foods\u200d his nutritionist instructed him to eliminate or the\u200d total amount of weight he lost, as he \u2062didn&#8217;t want the focus to be solely on his \u2063physical transformation.<\/p>\n<p>According \u200dto\u2064 Murphy, \u200bthe fast-paced \u2063nature of \u2064Nolan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-dont-advise-it-cillian-murphy-admits-to-extreme-diet-for-oppenheimer-role\/\" title=\"Cillian Murphy confesses to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-detailed-beginners-guide-to-mindful-eating\/\" title=\"A Detailed Beginner\u2019s Guide to Mindful Eating\">extreme diet<\/a> for &#8216;Oppenheimer&#8217; role: &#8220;I don&#8217;t recommend it.&#8221;&#8221;>filming process inadvertently made<\/a> it easier for him \u2064to \u2063skip meals without\u200d even\u200b realizing it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n \u2062\u2063 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like\u200d you&#8217;re on this\u2064 f***ing train that&#8217;s\u2062 just bombing. It&#8217;s bang, bang, \u200cbang, bang. You sleep for a \u2063few hours, get up, bang\u200c it\u200c again. \u2062I was \u2064running on crazy\u2064 energy; I went over\u200b a threshold to where I\u2063 was \u2062not worrying \u200babout\u2063 food \u2063or\u2062 anything,&#8221; Murphy explained. &#8220;I was so \u200cin it,\u2064 a state\u200d of\u2063 hyper&#8230;\u200b hyper \u2062<em\u200b class=\"dcr-4hero5\">something<\/em>. \u2064But it was \u200cgood because the character was like that. He\u2063 never ate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In \u2063reality,\u200c Oppenheimer, who passed\u2063 away from \u200dcancer in 1967, was a \u2062constant\u2063 smoker, \u2063alternating between \u2063cigarettes and his pipe\u2064 while occasionally enjoying a \u200dmartini.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n \u200d <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cigarettes and\u200c pipes. He would alternate between the\u2063 two. \u200cThat&#8217;s what did him in the end. I&#8217;ve smoked so many \u200dfake cigarettes\u2063 for &#8216;Peaky [Blinders]&#8217; and\u2062 this,&#8221; Murphy lamented. &#8220;My \u200bnext character will <em class=\"dcr-4hero5\">not<\/em> \u2062be a smoker. They\u2062 can&#8217;t\u200d be good for you. \u2063Even\u200d herbal cigarettes have health\u200d warnings now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While\u2063 Murphy \u2063acknowledged his \u200bextreme dieting, his co-star Emily Blunt may\u2064 have \u200bexaggerated the severity. &#8220;He could only \u2063eat, \u200dlike,\u2062 an almond every\u2063 day. He was so emaciated,&#8221; she claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Cillian Murphy confessed to extreme dieting for his role in Christopher Nolan&#8217;s &#8220;Oppenheimer.&#8221; Portraying the physicist behind the atomic bomb&#8217;s development, Murphy pushed himself to the limit, experimenting with minimal food intake to see how little he could eat and still perform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1976821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}