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You've heard of personal trainers. But how about a very personal trainer who pesters your work while you train with her?
Christopher Nolan knows about the latter. As Nolan accepted the best director award from the New York Film Critics Circle on Wednesday night, he recounted a particularly unexpected swipe.
“I was on my Peloton doing a high interval workout. I’m dying,” Nolan recalled in his acceptance speech. “The lecturer started talking about one of my films (later revealed to be Tenet) and said, 'Has anyone else seen this?' Because these are a few hours of my life that I will never go back to.'”
Nolan further used the anecdote to praise the professionalism of the assembled film critics.
“When [film critic] Rex Reed assumes he won't ask you to work out on your film!' Nolan joked. “In today's world, where opinions are ubiquitous, there is a prevailing idea that film criticism is becoming democratized. But I think that critical appreciation of films should not be an instinct but a profession.”
Footage of Nolan's speech was captured by critic Matt Neglia and posted on social media. That led to 404 Media reporter Samantha Cole finding the Peloton clip of instructor Jenn attacking Sherman.
“This song is from the soundtrack of a movie called Tenet,” Sherman said in the clip. “Did anyone see that? Did anyone else see this besides me? Because I need a manual. Someone needs to explain this. Yeah, I'm not kidding, what the hell was going on in that movie? Do you understand? Seriously, you have to be a neuroscientist to understand it. And that’s two and a half hours of my life that I want back.”
The Nolan clip and Peloton recording are below.