MOVIE NEWS – Josh Hartnett revealed the advice Matt Damon gave him too late during the filming of Oppenheimer…

According to Josh Hartnett, Oscar winner Matt Damon gives excellent advice. He still needs to work on his timing, though. During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Hartnett revealed that the Bourne actor warned him before they filmed Oppenheimer together. But it was too late to help. Damon warned the then 44-year-old that he was too old to gain weight for a movie role. Unfortunately, it was too late. “He told me not to gain the weight I had already gained for the role,” Hartnett told a laughing Fallon.

Damon, now 53, in his 40s, has made a firm rule about not gaining weight for a role. Although he tried to warn Hartnett not to gain weight for the role of Ernest Lawrence in the Christopher Nolan film, the trouble had already happened. When Hartnett informed him of her weight gain, Damon didn’t flinch:

“I gained about 30 pounds for the role, and he was like, ‘You’re never gonna get that off again, man.'”

Damon played Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, who worked with Oppenheimer to oversee the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb. Hartnett played Ernest Lawrence, the brilliant physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1939 and was Oppenheimer’s colleague at Berkeley. Hartnett gained weight to resemble better Lawrence’s larger frame, which he regretted. Hartnett went on to say that Damon was merciless and teased him about his reckless weight gain.

“He’s like, ‘You’re gonna spend the rest of your life trying to get that weight off, and it’s never gonna come off because your body’s gonna want to get that weight back on. You’re just gonna keep growing back out to that size, and you’re going to try and get it off, but it’s just gonna go back.’ I was like, ‘Thanks, Matt. Thanks for telling me this now. I’ve already gained it.'”

Fortunately, his efforts to embody the character were not in vain, as his performance opposite Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy, is excellent. The film itself became a critical, cultural, and box-office success. Oppenheimer won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.

Josh Harnett is back in the spotlight

After working with Christopher Nolan, Hartnett is now back in the spotlight. He will next star in M. Night Shyamalan’s film Trap. In the thriller, the actor takes his daughter to a crowded pop concert, where unexpected events occur… This film is a departure from Hartnett’s usual roles, and initial reviews of the film described it as entertaining. Similar to early Shyamalan films such as The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, it’s called a comeback. The film also stars Ariel Donoghue and Saleka Shyamalan and opens in theatres on August 1.

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