Cillian Murphy “smashed his head open” in a freak accident in his hotel room while he was filming ‘Oppenheimer’.
Cillian Murphy suffered a nasty accident while filming Oppenheimer
The 47-year-old actor worked on the film with actress Emily Blunt, who gave her co-star an expensive pillow to help him sleep while he was holed up in a budget hotel during the shoot, but the thoughtful gift led to a nasty injury as Cillian accidentally banged his head on the nightstand while attempting to flip the pillow over.
During an appearance on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’, Emily explained: “I like to do a start [and a wrap present]. Bookend it … No knock on the Holiday Inn Express pillows but I felt like what Cillian needed even more than food was sleep on this movie so I got him this very beautiful pillow … I’m obsessed with these pillows. It’s a Hastens pillow … “
“So it turned out he was really luxuriating in this pillow one night and he woke up in the middle of the night … and he went to fluff himself back down in the pillow and misjudged where it was … the cool side. Flipped it. And smashed his head open on the bedside table.
“So he came to work and they had to like glue his head shut.”
Cillian – who is nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in the movie – went on to explain he didn’t seek medical attention after the accident and instead contacted the film’s make-up team so they could fix up the wound for the next day’s filming.
He added: “I was a bit shocked you know. I was having a great sleep. I have this amazing pillow … It was a strange bed, strange table and bang … We were getting up before it was bright like at 3am so I called her [the head of make-up] and just came in [to work] and then she glued my head and covered it all up and you don’t even see it in the movie.”
