“Of course he didn’t want to come and have dinner with us.”

Murphy himself previously spoke to EWabout the excitement he felt being offered the lead role by Nolan.

“It was one of the best days ofmylife, I’ll tell you that,” Murphy said.

Matt Damon and Cillian Murphy in ‘Oppenheimer’

Matt Damon and Cillian Murphy in ‘Oppenheimer’.Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures

The thing was, I had no idea.

There was no preamble or anything, I just got the call.

So it was incredibly exciting, and daunting, and terrifying, all at the same time."

“Every day, you were having to raise your game to work with these legends.

Everybody was so unbelievably well-prepared.

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