There’s a woman called Barbie Oppenheimer – and she’s been having a difficult time

nme.com:

Slate, Oppenheimer said that numerous people thought she was joking whenever she would say her name outloud.Recalling a specifically confusing moment during a recent vacation, she said: “When I checked in at the hotel, I said, ‘Barbie Oppenheimer!’ The guy said, ‘Are you pulling my leg?’”Oppenheimer said that she “had college friends around the world texting me that weekend when [the movies] came out, with the whole schmear, you know… ‘the bomb and the bombshell’.”“It’s pretty funny!” she said about the confusion. “It was a brilliant thing that they launched them [the films] together.

It really brought people back into movie theatres.”The retired professor also revealed that her husband is actually a distant relative of J Robert Oppenheimer — his father is third cousins with the father of the atomic bomb, which is how she ended up with the famous physicist’s last name.Oppenheimer added that she and her husband saw Christopher Nolan‘s film on “opening weekend” because they “really wanted to see how they treated his story.” Ultimately, the couple agreed that the director did “a good job” in honouring the physicist.Praising how the film depicted the moral dilemma of creating an atomic bomb, Oppenheimer said: “Watching him deal with these questions, and the politicisation of it… I thought some of the most interesting scenes were about the patriotism at Los Alamos, as the staff felt at the time.”She went on to explain how, even within her husband’s own family, Oppenheimer’s legacy is very much a divisive topic. “He was a hero to many, but he was also the subject of a lot of anger.