James Woods Says ‘Oppenheimer’ EP Credit Was Kept Quiet
James Woods was an executive producer on OPPENHEIMER but stayed quiet after it was suggested his pro-Trump Twitter could screw up the film's rollout.
He says it was "painful" being the film's "invisible pariah," but he "took one for the team."https://t.co/Y3C3WwD7qn
- Zack Sharf (@ZSharf) July 26, 2024
James Woods was gently asked not to promote Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” in which he served as an executive producer after buying rights to the non-fiction book.
“When ‘Oppenheimer’ came out, there was a discussion about my Twitter, and it was gently suggested that I basically remain invisible, which was painful. On the other hand, I’m a pragmatic person and I thought, a lot of people put their effort into this. So I’m just going to be an invisible pariah because the people who are going to be voting for Oscars, which is very important to films because it helps with the financial reward and historical archive in which it rests forever, I don’t want to deprive those people. I don’t want that to happen and have the clickbait story be, ‘James Woods is the executive producer, we’re not going to watch that movie!’ So I stepped back and basically took one for the team. I was not even invited to the Producers Guild of America awards. And I’m a producer.”
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