Christopher Nolan continues tradition of massive male casts with “Oppenheimer”

Who cares? Males are his main audience and they tend to go see these type of films starring men.

How does Benny Safdie keep getting cast? He looks like he should always have a drool cup handy.

Wow, why take a chance with such a big cast of well-knows these days. It’s just waiting to be rocked by some metoo scandal.

MeToo is over r3

The public has finally acknowledged that the MeToo movement was all about hysterical score settling

Isn't this movie about the development of the atomic bomb which was done almost totally by white men?

Viola Davis is the quintessential Oppenheimer!

R5 it’s well known that a trans woman of color threw the first atom bomb at Hiroshima.

Jack Quaid was sexy in Scream 5. He had a gayish cadence to his voice that makes me think he’s family.

Well, the plane that dropped the first bomb was the Enola Gay.

R9 it’s the Enola Trans now

Will Matthew Modine [italic]finally[/italic] get to show us his (supposedly enormous) dong?

I think now it's just the Enolx.

[quote]Isn't this movie about the development of the atomic bomb which was done almost totally by white men?

Yes, just like the Stonewall riots!

[quote]Isn't this movie about the development of the atomic bomb which was done almost totally by white men?

More actors! More! More!

Seems like he cast a bunch of has beens from every 00s and early10s "Hot Young Hollywood" list. Why not add Taylor Kitsch and Tom Hardy to this "impressive" cast?

Also, is he secretly buttfucking Cilian Murphy or why is that bland mfer cast in every movie?

Looking forward to him directing “Sean Cody’s Hamptons Getaway” next year.

Will Armie and Timmy be cast as Fat Man and Little Boy?

Well to be fair on an army base where they were developing The Bomb, everyone there was a man. Certainly all the key players. Sign of the times, OP.

More actors! More!

"The public has finally acknowledged that the MeToo movement was all about hysterical score settling."

Unlike your bitchass comment?

More, more!

Why are people complaining about a major director doing a big-budget period drama with an all-star cast. I’m excited.

I NEED MORE MEN

Sounds like a fucking hot GANG BANG.

R15 that guy will always look like a deflated fat guy

I want Michael Angarano to #metoo all over my face.

What am I, chopped liver?

‘Oppenheimer’: Christopher Nolan Accused of Casting Only White Actors

It was bound to happen.

A few tweets went viral today and kickstarted a conversation about Christopher Nolan’s all-white casting of actors for “Oppenheimer.”

I even read a post somewhere saying “Someone should investigate where this cast was on January 6th, 2021.” Funny. Of course, there’s no denying that the cast Nolan has assembled here is uber-milky, but it’s also very important to pinpoint the time and place the story he’s telling is set in.

You are free to complain about the lack of diversity in Nolan's past films, but “Oppenheimer” is the worst possible example to point out. Nolan’s film is focused on a man who worked with a bunch of scientists, all of which were old white men, what the hell can you do?

[quote]Nolan’s film is focused on a man who worked with a bunch of scientists, all of which were old white men, what the hell can you do?

Oh, I can think of something.

Maybe Nolan is just more comfortable working with white actors, that Peele guy said the same about working with black actors a few years ago and everyone was okay with that.

Oppenheimer is trans and native until further notice. I'm thinking Zendaya plus a bald wig. Hashtag nukleer!

"Schindler's List" - Spielberg accused of only casting Polish Jews and English whites.

I'm not really bothered. Aside from Hathaway's decent work as Catwoman, Nolan doesn't appear that interested in creating memorable female characters.

I did think Swank was decent in Insomnia, as well as Chastain in Interstellar. But, nothing to write home about.

I find most of his films tend to be overinflated, directionless bores.

So, now, he's making a movie about the guy who designed the atomic bomb. I bet it'll be as much of a slog as David Fincher's Mank. Yawn.

It’s fake outrage. It’s just Twitter.

Twitter is not really the social police, they just think they are. Hollywood needs to stop listening to Twitter.

R30 That whole thing didn’t make any sense. There was one interview where she was describing how Anne would have worn her hair natural or something and it was so confusing.

But I’m ignorant of the black British. As Brits, do they identify with the British or their roots in the Caribbean and Africa or both? The thing is, black people outside the Americas know where they come from.

It would be like a black American wanting to play Martha Washington. Don’t get it.

R30 this never ceases to astound me. Twitter would riot if Harriet Tubman was played by a white woman or even a Chinese woman. It's also interesting how the majority of these racially motivated castings always involve blackwashing. It's never an Asian actor cast or rarely a Hispanic.

R36 lol sounds like they are trying to gaslight the world into thinking Anne Boleyn was really a black woman and was beheaded for wearing her natural hair kinky.

Also you forgot about Hamilton. That was made for blacks and Latinos to play white American historical figures.

[quote]I find most of his films tend to be overinflated, directionless bores.

Same, especially post Inception, where it seems he's perpetually trying to outdo himself. Tenet was a staggering amount of effort and expensive going into something I found it impossible to care about. Dunkirk hardly had a character in it, for all the dozens of faces/names. I see it listed in people's prior credits, and I have to take their word for it that they were in it.

R5 That's the common conception but I do wonder how true that is. I thought the Moon landing was primarily done by white men as well but Hidden Figures disabused me of that notion.

And of course, it's not like women haven't contributed to our understanding of radiation or the splitting of the atom, most particularly Madame Curie.

R38 Harriet Tubman is a bad example because her race is important to her character. She was a black slave.

Let’s not pretend Angelina Jolie didn’t do “A Mighty Heart” or Emma Stone playing a Hawaiian in “Aloha”.

Not only that, a lot of white roles were meant for black actors or people of color and were changed to white. There are several roles that described black or Latino characters and they were changed to white.

Catwoman was supposed to be black in the original Batman 2 script, Carey Mulligan in Drive was supposed to be Latina, Angelina in Wanted was supposed to be black, the list can go on about whitewashing.

Blackwashing, while some are ridiculous, ain’t that common but gets more outrage cause white people complain when the shit they do is done to them.

R40 the role of Madame Curie was rightfully mine

R34 Why would it be like Mank? Surely they’ll show the bombs going off in this.

John David Washington was just the sole lead in Tenet.

Buncha pasty-faced limeys doing American accents again.

You're completely right though R34. It's a wonder that Nolan is married and, allegedly, straight because he seems to have no inkling about the female psychology at all. His female characters are all empty, vacant plot devices. They don't even tend to be sexualized like you might aspect from a straight filmmaker uninterested in writing dimensional female characters.

He's got that strange British quality that seems to stem from growing up in a boys boarding school: it's a writing style that seems to imagine a world where men are the only one's who exist and women live in an entirely different world. They might be living rich lives out there but who knows - crossing the worlds is tantamount to invasion beyond the most perfunctory relationships men and women have with one another.

Given that, I don't want to see Nolan's interpretation of Curie - that would just be sad.

Josh Peck?

"One of these things is not like the others...one of these things just doesn't belong..."

Who was his muse?

The casting of Florence Pugh will save a little on the cost of art direction as she takes up so much of the screen space.

I wonder if this casting will backfire. There’s going to be like 40 speaking roles for name actors. It will seem cheesy.

No trans women of colour. Cancel this film now.

Ew, Matt Damon's in this.