Some of the most famous directors who have ever lived were known for idiosyncrasies that made them difficult to work with. Stanley Kubrick took several shots at night with a single shot. Hitchcock was possessive with his blonde protagonists. Tobe Hooper, more innocently, only needed a Dr. Pepper during a shoot.
Christopher Nolan is no different, says Anne Hathaway. At an Actors on Actors gathering at Les Miserables, Zoom Chat with Hugh Jackman for Variety, he said Nolan has certain restrictions on his sets. Other than cell phones, it prohibits otherwise.
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Hathaway, who worked with the Tenet filmmaker on The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar, revealed: “Chris doesn’t allow chairs either. I worked with him twice. “
She explained, “He does not allow chairs, and his reasoning is that if you have chairs, people will sit, and if they are sitting, they are not working.”
“I mean, he has these amazing films in terms of scope and ambition and technical prowess and emotion,” Hathaway continued, thinking that there is something to Nolan’s logic. “It always comes to the end on schedule and on budget. I think he’s got something on the chair.
Maybe it will get results, but that’s not getting much support on Twitter. A day after Hathaway made her comments, Nolan’s “chair thing” became a trend and led to slight accusations of capacity and speculation of a traumatic childhood involving seating.
Guys, they don’t understand, when Christopher Nolan was younger, a chair crashed into his window, scaring him
– Brian Lynch (@BrianLynch) June 29, 2020
Chairs terrify me, Wally. It is time for my crew to share my fear.
– Scott Mendelson (@ScottMendelson) June 29, 2020
That time we joked with Christopher Nolan on set pic.twitter.com/tMp7wVAnrd
– Bill Corbett (@BillCorbett) June 29, 2020
Why screw anyone with a chronic illness or disability. Not that any of us work, apparently … https://t.co/SxbIcoDW6f
– Diary of a disabled person. (@WheelsofSteer) June 30, 2020
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Before things got more out of control, an official Nolan spokesman released a statement to IndieWire that Nolan doesn’t really ban chairs. He simply rejects them for his own personal use.
Read Representative Kelly Bush Novak’s statement:
“For the record, the only prohibited things in [Christopher Nolan’s] games are cell phones (not always successfully) and smoking (very successfully), ”Nolan spokeswoman Kelly Bush Novak of ID said in a statement. “The chairs Anne was referring to are the directors’ chairs grouped around the video monitor, assigned based on hierarchy rather than physical need. Chris chooses not to use hers, but has never banned chairs from the set. The cast and crew can sit where and when they need to and often do. “
The extras in his films came to Nolan’s defense.
I was an extra in Dark Knight Rises, one of the 500 Gotham cops in the Wall St Brawl scene. We had plenty of chairs and tables in our prep area, in an abandoned building that an anarchist tried to blow up in 1920, blocks from Occupy Wall St. https://t.co/nJYPdddvlI
– Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) June 29, 2020
I don’t want to cause trouble, but … it was on the sets of “The Dark Knight Rises” and “Interstellar”, and people, I tell you, there were chairs. I even sat down in a couple.
– Jeff Jensen (@EWDocJensen) June 30, 2020
Tos, he was on the set of The Dark Knight … he confirmed there were chairs for the press …
… and yes, it was amazing https://t.co/2aL84FGZRW
– Gregory Ellwood – The Playlist 🎬 (@TheGregoryE) June 30, 2020
So, with the fire put out, the most pressing concern is that Tenet’s launch be delayed until August 12. Hopefully you can keep that date.
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