Cillian Murphy took an excessive method to weight-reduction plan with a view to rework into scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer for the Christopher Nolan-directed “Oppenheimer” movie.

“He had such a monumental endeavor,” the actor’s onscreen spouse, actress Emily Blunt, informed Additional in a brand new interview.

“And he might solely eat, like, an almond each day. He was so emaciated.”

Blunt’s feedback on Murphy’s pre-filming consuming habits bore an eerie resemblance to her well-known line in “The Satan Wears Prada,” the place her character, Emily Charlton, tells colleague Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway), “I’m on this new weight loss plan. Nicely, I don’t eat something, and after I really feel like I’m about to faint, I eat a dice of cheese.”

Her character then joked, “I’m only one abdomen flu away from my objective weight.”

In “Oppenheimer” – which hits film theaters Friday – Blunt, 40, performs the function of Oppenheimer’s spouse, Kitty. The well-known physicist Murphy portrays has been dubbed the “father of the atomic bomb” and was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory throughout World Warfare II. 

Murphy, 47, has beforehand mentioned his dedication to weight reduction for the film function.

“I really like performing with my physique, and Oppenheimer had a really distinct physicality and silhouette, which I wished to get proper,” he informed The New York Occasions in Might.

“I needed to lose fairly a little bit of weight, and we labored with the costume and tailoring; he was very slim, nearly emaciated, existed on martinis and cigarettes.”

Nonetheless, Murphy made it clear that his weight-reduction plan techniques aren’t secure and shouldn’t be replicated by others.

“You grow to be aggressive with your self a bit of bit, which isn’t wholesome,” he informed The Guardian in July, including, “I don’t advise it.”

The “Peaky Blinders” actor additionally defined that he didn’t need to disclose what meals his nutritionist instructed he minimize out to slim down – or how a lot weight he misplaced for the half.

“I don’t need it [the headlines] to be, ‘Cillian misplaced X weight for the half’,” he admitted.

Like her co-star, Blunt seems to have additionally made some sort of bodily transformation forward of the “Oppenheimer” debut. Web page Six reported earlier this month that a number of followers imagine Blunt could have underwent beauty surgical procedure for a brisker facade throughout her press tour.

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“Is it simply me or does Emily Blunt’s face look completely different?” one fan asked on Twitter, with another inquiring, “Did Emily Blunt have some type of surgical procedure? Her face appears completely different…”

“I’m extra involved with Emily Blunt and the filler she placed on her face. It appears like Madonna,” another argued.

Blunt additionally made headlines final week when she introduced she was taking a step again from her performing profession to spend extra time along with her household.

“This 12 months, I’m not working. I labored fairly a bit final 12 months and my oldest child is 9, so we’re within the final 12 months of single digits,” she stated throughout an interview on iHeart’s “Desk For Two with Bruce Bozzi” podcast.

Blunt later clarified that reactions to her performing break have been “overblown” and that she’s simply taking a couple of months off to frolicked along with her husband, John Krasinski, and their two daughters: Hazel, 9, and Violet, 6.

“I used to be simply taking some downtime — not quitting Hollywood,” she stated on the London premiere of “Oppenheimer.”