According to experts, one of the best ways to stay motivated to exercise is to find joy and community in the work. If that’s what Christopher Nolan was looking for when he signed up for a Peloton membership, he was sorely disappointed. The veteran filmmaker revealed recently that he was roasted mid-cycle by his instructor, who took issue with one of his movies.
“I was on my Peloton. I’m dying,” Nolan told the room while accepting a prize from the New York Film Critics Circle on Wednesday. “And the instructor started talking about one of my films and said, ‘Did anyone see this? That’s a couple hours of my life I’ll never get back again!’”
The director was making a larger point about the nature of film criticism and left out some of the finer points of his anecdote, including which of his movies had so perturbed his instructor, as well as that instructor’s identity. But this is the internet, after all, and unlike in 2006’s The Prestige, people here are really looking for the secret. They really want to know.