‘Vikings’ actor Gustaf Skarsgard boards ‘Oppenheimer’
By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Swedish actor Gustaf Skarsgard, greatest recognized for exhibits resembling “Vikings” and “Westworld”, has joined the solid of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie “Oppenheimer”.
The Universal Pictures mission is the biopic of famed physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, one of many fathers of the atomic bomb. Cilian Murphy stars within the titular position.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Skarsgard will play Hans Bethe, a German-American nuclear physicist who gained the 1967 Nobel Prize in physics and was tasked by Oppenheimer to move up the T (Theoretical) division of the Manhattan Project.
“Oppenheimer” additionally stars Robert Downey Jr , Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz, David Dastmalchian and David Rysdahl.
It relies on the 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning e-book, “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird. The movie has booked July 21, 2023, as the discharge date.
