"You’re making a demand of an actor that very few actors in the history of film can rise to," Nolan said of casting Murphy as the atomic bomb inventor.
"Just tell me what I'm doing, just tell me what my motivation is, and then I want to see the movie," Murphy recalled saying to director Christopher Nolan.
Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt, and Matt Damon also star in the World War II ensemble period piece centered on the creation of the atomic bomb.
"All I can say is, I am so envious I didn’t get to be on set for this production," Peele said alongside "Oppenheimer" and "Nope" cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema.