![]() But Kitty was a terrible mother and she wasn’t a very good housewife – and had no desire to be one.” “It was a time where contortions were happening to women, as they tried to kind of mould themselves into perfect housewives. “There was something flighty and wild and nonconformist about her,” says Blunt. Yet she was far from your cookie-cutter supportive spouse (sample line: “The brat is down! Where are the martinis?”). ![]() Kitty Puening was a botanist and one-time US Communist party campaigner who had four husbands before she was 30, the last of whom was Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the atomic bomb.Ĭhristopher Nolan’s huge and chewy new drama shows how Kitty sustained Robert through his development of the weapon in remotest New Mexico and during a later campaign to smear him for espionage. ![]() In her new movie, she plays another early starter. You can trace the lineage back further – some Dench deprecation, a little Mirren wither. ![]() “Those big, blue eyes incredibly alive to what was going on.” She had just turned 11.īlunt is now 40 and the biggest British female movie star of her generation: currently pipping Knightley and Mulligan a natural successor to Weisz and Winslet. He can still picture her “ready, crouching in the wings”, before a crowd scene in Twelfth Night. ![]()
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