Matt Damon had some advice for his ‘Oppenheimer’ co-star Josh Hartnett, but it appears it came a little too late.
Heart Net is “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Earlier this week, I laughed at Damon’s “useless” suggestion.
“He gave me a lot of good advice,” Hartnett said, “but one thing in particular that wasn’t helpful at all was telling me not to gain any more weight than I had already gained for the role.”
He continued, “I put on about 30 pounds for the role, and he said, ‘You’re never going to lose it again. You can’t be fat once you’re 40. You can try to lose it your whole life, but you’ll never lose it again, because your body will just try to put the weight back on. You’ll get fat again, and you’ll gain it back, so even if you try to lose it, it’ll just keep coming back.’ That’s what he kept telling me throughout the whole shoot.”
Josh Hartnett has joked that Matt Damon gave him the “unhelpful” advice to gain weight for his role in ‘Oppenheimer’. (Getty Images)
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In the film, Hartnett, now 46, plays Ernest Lawrence, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who worked with J. Robert Oppenheimer, while Damon, 53, plays Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project.
“I was like, ‘Thanks Matt, thank you for just telling me this. I’ve gained weight already,'” Hartnett joked, “And now I’m not eating anymore.”
In the film, Hartnett plays Ernest Lawrence, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who worked with J. Robert Oppenheimer. (Melinda Sue Gordon / © Universal Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection Everett Collection – 2023)
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Hartnett’s role was smaller in Oppenheimer, and he joked that the pressure of awards season was gone while he supported the film.
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“It’s fun when you’re not chasing awards,” he said, “just having a drink with people and hanging out and watching other people get up on stage and give speeches and do silly things, it’s great.”
Hartnett joked that there was no pressure during “Oppenheimer’s” awards season sweep. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Fallon noted that Oppenheimer won best picture at this year’s Oscars, and Hartnett said he was able to walk up to the stage himself. “When you look at the picture on the cover of The New York Times or whatever, you see me on the edge of the frame, cut out. It was like, one of the ushers is in it, and it’s not me,” he added.
