Irish actor and heartthrob Cillian Murphy is the likely winner at this year’s Academy Award for his role as J. Robert Oppenheimer in the blockbuster movie Oppenheimer. And while he’s known for his impressive acting chops, his horseback riding skills, not so much.
Co-star Emily Blunt went on the record describing how on the set of the Oscar-bait period piece from director Christopher Nolan she and Murphy filmed a scene where they ride across the desert. “So then [Nolan] goes, ‘I’ve got the camera car. Do you want to do a gallop across the plains?’ And I heard Cillian go, ‘Um. Ooh. Uh,’” she told Late Show host Stephen Colbert. “And then I was really game for it so Cillian had no option, and I just left him in the dust. He was a little bit nervous, yeah,” Blunt added.
