Christopher Nolan Talks Oppenheimer on Colbert

Colbert's Oppenheimer Interview

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is a US late-night talk show that runs weeknights on CBS. During Hollywood awards season, Colbert typically brings on directors, actors, and writers whose films are in contention.

In early 2024, Christopher Nolan came on to discuss Oppenheimer, which had just become the most-nominated film of the year with 13 Oscar nominations. The full YouTube episode runs longer than 30 seconds and includes Nolan discussing his process, the film's practical effects, and the burner-phone story that became the episode's YouTube title.

This page shows the first 30 seconds—Colbert's show open, the house band sting, and the beginning of the Oppenheimer setup—then prompts you to download the full video and add your own translated subtitles using Translator.

How to watch the full interview with translated subtitles

Translator is a desktop app that downloads videos from YouTube and lets you add translated subtitles in your language. Here's how it works:

1. Paste the YouTube URL — Copy the link to this Late Show episode and paste it into Translator's download field.
2. Download the video — Translator downloads the video file to your computer. This step is free and runs locally on your machine.
3. Transcribe and translate — The video already has English captions. You can translate those captions to Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, or another language. Choose your AI model (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) and translation preferences. You can pay per minute with Stage5 credits or bring your own API key.
4. Watch and edit — The app plays the video with your translated subtitles. You can edit the subtitle text, adjust timing, change styles, and export the final SRT file when you're done.

The video stays on your computer. You're not streaming it through a web app or uploading it to someone else's server. Translator works locally.

English-language interviews with multilingual subtitles

Most US late-night shows—The Late Show, The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live—are in English. YouTube's automatic captions work for English, but if you want accurate subtitles in another language, you usually have to make them yourself.

Translator gives you that control. Download the video, choose your translation model and target language, and watch the interview with subtitles that match what was actually said. You can edit translations line by line, adjust timing if captions drift, and export the final subtitle file.

This workflow works for any YouTube video: director interviews, film criticism, podcasts, documentaries. If you've been watching English-language content and wishing you had better subtitles in your language, or if you're watching foreign-language content and YouTube's auto-translate isn't cutting it, this is what Translator does.