Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. enthralled the audiences with their performances as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oppenheimer. Besides having a worldwide collection of $960.7 million, the movie also won five Golden Globe Awards, seven BAFTAs, three SAG Awards, and 13 nominations at the 96th Academy Awards.
While working on the movie together, the movie’s cast developed a strong bond. So much so that they often made jokes at the expense of each other during the promotional interviews. During one such interview, Downey Jr. began wheezing when Murphy read a fan’s compliment.
Robert Downey Jr. Lost It When Cillian Murphy Read a Fan’s Compliment During an Interview
Besides enjoying watching Oppenheimer, the audience also got the chance to witness their favorite movie stars doing numerous interviews to promote the movie. In one such interview for PEOPLE magazine, the cast read fans’ tweets complimenting the movie.
Unlike some of his co-stars, the movie’s lead star Cillian Murphy is not on social media so his unfamiliarity with internet terms is understandable. This unawareness of his was palpable during one of his interviews, in which his being unable to read a fan’s compliment having emojis was almost too funny for Robert Downey Jr. to keep from laughing.
During the segment ”Oppenheimer’ Cast Reacts to Your Tweets’ of the interview for PEOPLE magazine, Cillian Murphy read a fan’s post on X which was as follows:
Vision Pro is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 gotta watch Oppenheimer on this baby 😩
— The Chosen One (@KiDCuDi) February 5, 2024
After struggling a bit with reading the post and some help from Emily Blunt, Murphy read it as:
“Oh gosh, this is emoji talk. [Blunt helps him.] Vision Pro is fire fire fire fire gotta watch Oppenheimer on this baby.”
The 28 Days Later star then went on to ask what Vision Pro was. Having recovered from his wheezing fit hearing Murphy read the post, Robert Downey Jr. jumped in to inform them that it was the new Apple VR headset, which Murphy seemed to catch on.
Fans’ Reactions to Cillian Murphy Reading the X Post that Had His Co-star Wheezing
The Iron Man star seemed to be having a hard time controlling himself from laughing out loud as he watched Murphy struggle with reading a post with emojis. Fans have a similar reaction to the eventful interview in which the cast read X posts complimenting their movie.
Here is what some of them have to say:
him reading out every single fire emoji is so 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/lhWyaw6ChZ
— 🎧 (@waystarfilm) March 7, 2024
why is he like this
— lisa (@pIayherpiano) March 7, 2024
Bro definitely doesn’t use technology other than the nuclear bomb
— manuel (@MANUELDOESIT) March 8, 2024
He is so 🤌🏻
— Sheetal Rijhwani (@RijhwaniSheetal) March 8, 2024
he's so pure for this world, rdj was like: pic.twitter.com/4PVTpPchhX
— harv (@haroldvarde) March 8, 2024
and the "what's vision pro?" at the end😭😭
— jean (@sirupbuah) March 8, 2024
Murphy neither likes clicking pictures with fans nor has social media. Being on social media is not a need per se, but it certainly helps people understand certain things on social media. So, it is good to see that instead of criticizing his lack of knowledge of internet terms, fans just took it in good stride and enjoyed watching the interview.
