Cillian Murphy had to have head “glued shut” on ‘Oppenheimer’ set because of a pillow Emily Blunt gave him

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Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy was forced to have his head “glued shut” due to an accident involving a pillow given to him by Emily Blunt.The stars play couple J.

Robert Oppenheimer and Kitty Oppenheimer in the Christopher Nolan film, and Blunt revealed on Jimmy Kimmel Live that she decided to gift the sleep item to her co-star as she felt he needed good rest in making the film.“I just felt Cillian needed, probably even more than food, was sleep on this movie,” she began. “So I got him this very beautiful pillow that I’m obsessed with.

These pillows, Hästens pillows.“I gave him this pillow, but…,” Blunt continued, before turning to Murphy and asking: “Do you mind if I tell the story?”“He was really luxuriating in this pillow one night, and he woke up in the middle of the night – this is what he told me the next day – and he went to fluff himself back down in the pillow, misjudged where it was, the cool side, flipped it, and smashed his head open on the bedside table.

So he came to work, and they had to glue his head shut!”Revealing he turned to Oppenheimer make-up artist Luisa Abel, Murphy further recalled: “I was a bit shocked you know!