Pugh recalled asking the camera surgeon about how he was fixing the device while she and her co-star were totally naked on set.
Oscar nominees Florence Pugh and Cillian Murphy experienced technical difficulties while shooting a sex scene on the set of Oppenheimer, the actress shared during a panel.
“In the middle of our sex scene, the camera broke,” Pugh shared. “No one knows this, but it did. Our camera broke when we were both naked, and it was not ideal timing.”
Pugh plays Jean Tatlock in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, who was in a relationship with Murphy’s titular protagonist before and during his marriage to Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, played by Emily Blunt (Oscar nominated for her role).
When someone arrived to fix the camera, she figured, “this is my moment to learn,” and asked the camera surgeon: “what’s wrong with this camera?”
“You just make your moments,” Pugh told the crowd. “I’m like, ‘What’s going on with the shutter here, buddy?’”
The actress complimented Nolan’s production team: “every person on this set was so knowledgeable and so ready to make this kind of movie that there was no dull moment. It was all amazing. It felt like we were lucky to be there every second of the day.”
My Oscar Book:
Oppenheimer earned 13 nominations, the most of any film. Among the nods are nominations for best picture, best actor (Murphy), best director (Nolan) and best supporting actress (Blunt) and actor (Robert Downey Jr.)
