Cillian Murphy reportedly received $10 million for playing the titular role in Oppenheimer, which marked his first time starring as a leading man in a Christopher Nolan movie. Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt, and Matt Damon each got paid $4 million for supporting roles, a significant pay cut for the opportunity to work with Nolan. Other cast members like Florence Pugh and Benny Safdie were reportedly paid relatively lower salaries for their roles in Oppenheimer.

Oppenheimer may have been a box office smash, but some of the A-listers in the star-studded cast didn't get paid as much as one might've guessed to star alongside Cillian Murphy in Christopher Nolan's historical drama. Based on the true story of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), known as the "father of the atomic bomb," Oppenheimer was both a critical and commercial success. In part thanks to 2023's "Barbenheimer" phenomenon, Oppenheimer raked in nearly $1 billion worldwide at...