Emily Blunt addresses Barbie vs Oppenheimer feud as films battle at box office

2023-07-19

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Emily Blunt has addressed the cinema battle between her film Oppenheimer and Barbie – and revealed what the public should do.

The Hollywood actress, 40, plays Cillian Murphy's on-screen wife Kitty Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's blockbuster flick which hits cinemas on Friday (July 21), the same day as Greta Gerwig's Barbie.

It means the two mega films will be competing with each-other at the box office to pull in the most punters.

But it seems she

READ MORE:Emily Blunt admits Oppenheimer set felt 'claustrophobic' despite big expectation

In an interview on Lorraine, Emily was told: "Oppenheimer is out on the 21st July, along with a certain pink film, and it seems that every fifteen years, we're sort of asked to make a choice between two amazing films."

But the A-lister insisted cinema lovers could watch both Barbie and Oppenheimer, replying: "You don't have to."

Emily previously revealed that shooting the film felt "claustrophobic" at times.

She told TalkRadio: "They're exquisitely written scenes, and it's a sort of time for [my character] Kitty to sort of reclaim that brilliant brain that is sort of deteriorated throughout the course of the film.

"And it was very claustrophobic in there. I remember [in a trial scene] we were all expecting a big courtroom.

"In actuality, it was a tiny, shabby little room, where he was really just, you know, dragged across the coals and so it was a tiny, shabby, little room that we shot those scenes in."

Oppenheimer tells the story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

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Lorraine Kelly
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