Oppenheimer’ U.S. Premiere Cancels Red Carpet Amid SAG-AFTRA Strike - London & Paris Coverage
July 2023 - London, UK & Paris, France - Universal Pictures canceled the upcoming red carpet at the U.S premiere of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” amid the SAG-AFTRA strike. Just prior, the cast gathered in London and Paris for the Europe premiere - Bader Studios Europe covered both events to talk with the actors and producers about the strike and this movie being the last one promoted.
“Oppenheimer” cast members, Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon and Emily Blunt were in London for the premiere but did not attend the screening of the film. Nolan informed the audience that his actors left the premiere to start making picket signs for the strike. The premiere’s red carpet actually started an hour earlier so that cast members could attend to promote the movie before the actors' strike began.
Damon said: “We gave the strike authorization. We voted 98% to 2% to do that because we know our leadership has our best interest at heart.”
Emily Blunt told Variety: “Obviously we stand with all of the actors and at whatever point it’s called, we’re going to be going home and standing together through it because I want everyone to get a fair deal.”
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
“Oppenheimer” opens in theaters nationwide July 21.
“Oppenheimer” cast members, Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon and Emily Blunt were in London for the premiere but did not attend the screening of the film. Nolan informed the audience that his actors left the premiere to start making picket signs for the strike. The premiere’s red carpet actually started an hour earlier so that cast members could attend to promote the movie before the actors' strike began.
Damon said: “We gave the strike authorization. We voted 98% to 2% to do that because we know our leadership has our best interest at heart.”
Emily Blunt told Variety: “Obviously we stand with all of the actors and at whatever point it’s called, we’re going to be going home and standing together through it because I want everyone to get a fair deal.”
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
“Oppenheimer” opens in theaters nationwide July 21.
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00:00This is a national emergency.
00:04Our work here will ensure peace mankind has never seen.
00:09The world will remember this day.
00:26I don't know why.
00:28I've always been fascinated with this event and the history around it.
00:33This is a film about people, people coming together to try and pull something off
00:37against impossible, seemingly impossible odds.
00:40So this was the theatre where we first showed Memento anywhere in the world
00:44and now it's the first theatre anywhere in the world where we will show Oppenheimer
00:48on 70mm film.
00:50The reaction so far has been amazing.
00:52It's a film designed for theatres, you know, for IMAX.
00:57It's less of a film and more of an experience.
00:59Chris likes to describe it as 3D without the glasses.
01:02I think the thing that Chris does really well with his movies is he sort of
01:06makes films that really live with people after they've left the theatre.
01:09I mean, I don't think Chris makes films that are didactic in any way.
01:14I feel he likes the open-endedness of asking really profound questions
01:19but sort of not giving you the answers.
01:21Chris Nolan takes it as an assumption that the audience is intelligent
01:25and I appreciate that.
01:27Every single detail he put in was so that people can see it
01:30in its largest possible format.
01:32I don't know if we can be trusted with such a weapon.
01:41But we have no choice.
01:44What Chris gave, I think, all of us was an amazing script.
01:47All my experience with Chris has always been real sets.
01:50So you experience it as the characters would.
01:53It's a more visceral and honest response, I think, you get.
01:56It was completely pure and completely real
01:59and exactly what acting should be like.
02:01It felt like an old-school type of film that you wouldn't really see these days.
02:04Well, I mean, you're hearing what people are saying
02:06and you're hearing what they're saying.
02:08It's a very different kind of film.
02:11Well, I mean, you're hearing what people are saying about the film.
02:14It literally is a cinematic experience.
02:18Chris has said that he's the most important man that ever lived.
02:21It was a huge role, a huge responsibility.
02:23It's not just ideas, it's the soul, it's the heart
02:26about something that affects all of us
02:28and could have changed the history of this planet.
02:31Part of the appeal of the story, what makes it dramatic,
02:34is that told right, and we've done our best,
02:37when the film finishes, there'll be a lot of interesting questions,
02:39a lot of resonances.
02:41Is that Mao quote when he was asked
02:44what he thought about the French Revolution
02:46and he said, it's too soon to tell.
02:49You know, we really don't know all of the benefits or cost
02:54of what this man in this group,
02:56what this man and his leadership have done for this planet,
02:59and the story is still going to play out.
03:01You are the man who gave them the power to destroy themselves
03:06and the world is not prepared.
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03:15Truman needs to know what's next.
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03:18What's next?
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