The film industry has had some major outrages in recent years, but it’s hard to recall one as outright bonkers as the one in the past 24 hours regarding Christopher Nolan.
Yesterday as part of an interview between actors Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman, Hathaway dropped an innocuous and slightly delivered in jest comment about how her “Interstellar” filmmaker is not a fan of chairs on his film sets because they can be an issue with some people’s work ethic.
Then, social media being social media and doing what it does best – took that comment and ran with it, trying to paint the picture of a filmmaker with a deep hatred of chairs, an ableist, questioned working conditions on his set (and others), called him discriminatory against those who like to sit, and then turned into a deep dive investigation into whether there is any proof of chairs on any Nolan film sets.
It has gotten so bad, an official spokesperson for Nolan has had to release a statement saying that chairs are frequently used on set but not by Nolan himself who has other unique rules:
“For the record, the only things banned from [Christopher Nolan’s] sets are cell phones (not always successfully) and smoking (very successfully). The chairs Anne was referring to are the directors chairs clustered around the video monitor, allocated on the basis of hierarchy not physical need. Chris chooses not to use his but has never banned chairs from the set. Cast and crew can sit wherever and whenever they need and frequently do.”
Nolan’s new film “Tenet,” which even had chairs in some scenes in its trailer, arrives on August 12th.
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