Did Oppenheimer’s apple-poisoning incident really happen? It’s complicated
Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMuch of Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s three-hour biopic about the theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, is rooted in verifiable fact.The film tracks the life of Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), from his early political activity through to the invention of the atomic bomb, and then the attacks on his reputation after the Second World War.While much of the film draws from…