Oppenheimer (2023) has become one of the great films of recent years. The film directed by Christopher Nolan It was the fourth highest grossing film in Spain last year, and won seven Oscars. Many Hollywood stars appear in it, such as Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt or Florence Pugh. Also has multitude of cameos of well-known actors who perhaps went unnoticed by viewers.
In Oppenheimer you can see the appearances of Kenneth Branagh, Casey Affleck or Gary Oldman among many others, but the fact is that many scientists participated in the Manhattan Project with which the atomic bomb was created, all of whom are present in the film. He played one of them Josh Peck which has been in the news again in recent weeks for the premiere of Quiet on Set in HBO Max, the documentary about Nickelodeon’s dark years.
Josh Peck as Kenneth Bainbridge in ‘Oppenheimer’
The protagonist of the series Drake & Josh gave life to scientist Kenneth Brainbridge in Oppenheimer. The Harvard University physicist was one of the minds most involved in the Manhattan Project and in the Trinity test, although before being selected to go to Los Alamos he dedicated himself to the creation of war radars in Great Britain. In Christopher Nolan’s film he is the in charge of pressing the explosion button.
After the Manhattan Project, Kenneth Bainbridge continued his career in his scientific field, participating in the creation of a particle accelerator at Princeton, and was also the director of the Harvard Physics Department between 1950 and 1954. Of course, those years after the Second World War were not easy for him.
The scientist played by Josh Peck in the film was one of those who radically opposed the creation of a hydrogen bomb, which made him gain a multitude of enemies. Senator McCarthy, known for his ‘Witch hunt’ against communists, placed him next to Robert Oppenheimer himself on your blacklist.
The feud on the part of the GOP senator did not prevent Kenneth Bainbridge continue teaching classes in physics at Harvard University. He finally retired from teaching in 1976, and died at age 91 in 1996.
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