Christopher Nolan doesn’t let the actors sit on his movie sets


Christopher Nolan.
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What you’re probably doing right now, and I mean in this very secondAnd also something you probably do every day, several times a day, is not allowed on the set of a Christopher Nolan movie. For the last installment of VarietyActors in the Actors series, two Nolan veterans: Anne Hathaway (The dark knight rises) and Hugh Jackman (The prestige) talked and talked about working with the director. Hathaway disclosed a secret to Nolan’s notoriously secret sets: There are no chairs on the set for Nolan’s movie because Nolan doesn’t allow sitting. It also does not allow cell phones. Observe: