Alex Wolff, who last year appeared in M. Night Shyamalan’s Old and the Nicolas Cage indie hit Pigis the latest actor to feature OppenheimerChristopher Nolan’s actor-filled biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the fathers of the A-bomb.
Cillian Murphy, who appeared in Nolan’s Batman movie as well as the filmmaker’s Dunkirkportrays the physicist with a call sheet that is more atomically packaged than the periodic table of elements: Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz and David Dastmalchian are among the cast.
The feature has been filming in New Mexico for a few weeks now and is still adding actors to the mix. Sources say that with Nolan’s secretive process, actors sometimes do not even know what role they are signing up for before the deal is finalized. In any case, whether large or small, many in Hollywood are more than eager to parachute.
Wolff’s role is not revealed.
The studio has set a release date for July 21, 2023 for Oppenheimerwhich centers on the theoretical physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb during World War II, but later found his loyalty to the United States questioned by high-ranking government officials.
Wolff was one of the stars of Ari Aster’s horror film with bone-white bones Hereditary and also appeared in Jumanji movie.
Wolff, who debuted with 2019’s as instruction and author The cat and the moonis represented by WME, Untitled and Definition Entertainment.