Florence Pugh's Nude Scene in OPPENHEIMER Has Been Censored in Some Regions

Before Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was released, Cillian Murphy revealed that the film would have "prolonged full nudity" and sex scenes between Murphy and Florence Pugh. If you’ve seen the film, then you know how those scenes play out.

One of those scenes involves an intimate moment and conversation between Murphy’s J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Communist lover Jean Tatlock, who is played by Pugh. Well, it turns out that scene has been censored in some regions of the world like India.

The censored version of the scene features Pugh’s body wearing a black dress as seen above, which is a screenshot from the movie. According to IGN, “Universal Pictures decided to use a CGI dress on Pugh during the nude scene, making it a special edit to meet film certification standards.”

As you might expect, people on social media are responding to the news with joking remarks.

A censored version of ‘OPPENHEIMER’ is being screen in several countries, with a CGI black dress covering Florence Pugh. pic.twitter.com/3SXea7pbCt

— Florence Pugh Daily (@bestofpugh) July 24, 2023

Christopher Nolan: No CGI, IMAX cameras, shoot on film for best quality, specific aspect ratio, black and white.

Censor board: Let's put a fake dress over the lady! pic.twitter.com/nlnQWPmFD2

— Abhishek Baxi (@baxiabhishek) July 24, 2023

The best ever cg work in India award goes to the Indian censor board for florence pugh black dress in #Oppenheimer pic.twitter.com/VRPBy0ARKp

— lucho 🇪🇸 (@busigoatt) July 23, 2023

the nude scene in Oppenheimer got censored in Indonesia, this country is certified non-Oppaiheimer.

— ◢◤◢◤ (@JakaAdy) July 24, 2023

(no spoilers) they used computer graphics to create a black dress on Florence Pugh (she's supposed to be nude sitting on that sofa) instead of just cutting her nude scene in Oppenheimer for middle east and Pakistan 💀

— g h a u r a (@ghauraghaura) July 23, 2023

I am pretty sure the censor board of nepal cut the nude scene of "Oppenheimer" just because its a nude scene and didn't actually watch the movie, hence did not know its significance. Great job! #Oppenheimer #nepal

— Hitesh Bagaria (@HiteshBagaria) July 22, 2023

The film centers on the scientist who ran the Manhattan Project that led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II. The film has been described as an “epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.”

Murphy is joined in the film by Robert Downey, Jr. as founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Lewis Strauss; Matt Damon as Manhattan Project director Leslie Groves Jr.; Benny Safdie as theoretical physicist Edward Teller; and Josh Hartnett as pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence. The movie also stars Rami Malek, Gary Oldman, Michael Angarano, Olivia Thirlby, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, Jason Clarke, David Krumholtz, Kenneth Branagh, and David Dastmalchian.

Oppenheimer is now in theaters.