Rami Malek, Florence Pugh, and Benny Safdie have joined the cast of Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer." The World War II drama's impressive cast already includes Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Cillian Murphy, and Emily Blunt.
The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer", written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Cillian Murphy will star as Oppenheimer.
Malek will be playing a scientist, Pugh will play Jean Tatlock, a Communist Party member who has a love affair with Oppenheimer, and Safdie will star as Edward Teller, a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project.
