Since the digital movie camera used to film the actors relies on the photoelectric effect to turn light into pixel data, you could say Einstein’s equations were used for the live-action portion too!
Chris Nolan doesn’t shoot digital. His more recent pictures (Interstellar included) are shot on a mixture of 35mm, 70mm and IMAX 70mm (!)
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