‘Drake and Josh’ Star Josh Peck Joins Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comRebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Drake and Josh” star Josh Peck has joined the sprawling cast of Christopher Nolan’s World War II epic “Oppenheimer.”He will play Kenneth Bainbridge, a real scientist who was involved in the Manhattan Project, the code name for America’s effort to develop nuclear weapons during the second world war.Cillian Murphy is starring as J.
Robert Oppenheimer in the movie, which examines the physicist whose contribution led to the creation of the atomic bomb. Murphy will be surrounded by an A-list ensemble, including Emily Blunt as biologist and botanist Kitty Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as Manhattan Project director Leslie Groves Jr.
and Robert Downey, Jr. as founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Lewis Strauss. There are at least a dozen other recognizable actors already on board.
Florence Pugh will play psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie will portray theoretical physicist Edward Teller and Josh Hartnett will embody pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence.
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