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The Exact Moment Emily Blunt Realized ‘Oppenheimer’ Was Going to Be Huge · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Clearly, when the creative team behind Oppenheimer, including director Chris
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Speaker 2: Nolan and the stars Killian Murphy and Emily Blunt, set
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Speaker 2: out to make the film, they hoped it would be successful.
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Speaker 2: But nobody, not even these three, could have predicted a
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Speaker 2: three hour historical drama would go on to earn Ja
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Speaker 2: Shy of a billion dollars. It's unheard of, totally unprecedented,
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Speaker 2: but Emily tells Variety she remembers the very first moment
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Speaker 2: she first sent something special was a foot saying because
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Speaker 2: of the strike, we didn't get to watch the movie
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Speaker 2: at a premiere. I realized that Oppenheimer was going to
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Speaker 2: be a very significant moment in cinema history. When my husband,
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Speaker 2: John Krasinski, and I managed to find two seats at
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Speaker 2: an Imax in Nyack, New York, in a shopping mall.
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Speaker 2: We snuck in as the lights went dark. I saw
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Speaker 2: teenage boys come in dressed as Oppenheimer in Nayak. I
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Speaker 2: got chills. I called Killian afterwards and said, you're not
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Speaker 2: going to believe what I just saw. The words Emily Blunt,
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Speaker 2: who adds she and even Chris are still all struck
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Speaker 2: by the runaway success of Oppenheimer, which is on VOD
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Speaker 2: now
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.