Cillian Murphy will not attend Dublin Oppenheimer premiere this weekend

Cillian Murphy will no longer attend the premiere of the Christopher Nolan blockbuster Oppenheimer in Dublin this weekend due to a strike by Hollywood's brightest stars.

Murphy, who plays "the father of the atomic bomb" J. Robert Oppenheimer in the hotly anticipated release, will be joining his fellow cast members Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Kenneth Branagh, Rami Malek and Florence Pugh in boycotting the ceremony in support of the strike. The Oppenheimer premiere at the IFI cinema in Temple Bar is still set to go ahead, just without the main man gracing its red carpet.The strike action was called early Friday morning by the Screen Actors Guild which represents 160,000 performers and media professionals in the US.

The action centres around calls by SAG for a "modern contract that addresses modern issues" which were rejected by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers who, actors claim, only wish to maintain "income erosion, AI exploitation" and "abusive self-tape demands". In the background since May, there has been a strike by the 11,500 screenwriters of the Writers Guild of America , also taken against AMPTP, resulting in a complete shutdown of late night television shows such as The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live! due to a dispute over pay and AI.

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