'Vikings' fame Gustaf Skarsgard has bagged a pivotal role in Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer'.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, Gustaf will play Hans Bethe, a German-American nuclear physicist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in physics and was tasked by Oppenheimer to head up the T (Theoretical) division of the Manhattan Project.
'Oppenheimer' is based on Kai Bird's 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Cillian Murphy has been roped in to headline the project as J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the fathers of the atomic bomb.
( With inputs from ANI )
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