Christopher Nolan Recalls Peloton Instructor’s Diss Of ‘Tenet’ While He Was Working Out With Her
deadline.comYou’ve heard of personal trainers. But how about a very personal trainer who disses your work while you’re exercising with her?
Christopher Nolan knows about the latter. While accepting the award for Best Director from the New York Film Critics Circle on Wednesday night, Nolan related one particularly unexpected broadside. “I was on my Peloton doing a high-interval workout.
I’m dying,” Nolan recalled in his acceptance speech. “The instructor started talking about one of my films (later discovered to be Tenet) and said, ‘Has anyone else seen this?
Because that’s a couple hours of my life I’ll never get back again.'” Nolan went on to use the anecdote as a way to tout the professionalism of the assembled film critics. “When [film critic] Rex Reed takes a s— on your film, he doesn’t ask you to work out!” Nolan joked. “In today’s world, where opinions are everywhere, there is a sort of idea that film criticism is being democratized.
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