Christopher Nolan's Peleton Instructor ROASTED His Movie And I Kinda Agree With Her

TLDR: Christopher Nolan told a story while accepting an award for 'Oppenheimer' where he was in the middle of a Peleton ride and his instructor started shredding 'Tenet'. 

This has to be a hilariously humbling experience for a director. Especially one of Nolan's status. When you're mid-peleton(or any other class), you're in one of the more vulnerable positions you'll ever be in. Covered in sweat, counting down the seconds while your gross body is chafing against the spandex. All while your instructor is on-screen barely breaking a sweat. 

To be in that spot and then have your instructor shit all over your professional work? MAN, Nolan may never forget that. Also, is that sneakily a great motivator? An instructor shitting on you might just drive you to work harder out of spite. Imagine you're Matt the accountant at a Soul cycle class and the instructor goes "Anyone ever use Johnson & sons accounting? They fucking suck!" 

I think the gut rage would make you work harder? I'm not sure. 

Anyway, I don't blame that instructor one bit for her take. Nolan is a unicorn in the movie world that seems to always hit the directors triple crown for a movie. 1. Critically beloved 2. Audience beloved. 3. Box office blockbuster. 'Tenet', however, was a heat check. 

It was Nolan saying "How far off the ledge can I go and do what EYE want to do before I lose the audience?". The result, to me, was a movie that was by far the most confusing and scatterbrained relative to his catalogue(which is a way higher bar that basically any other directors). I liked it more after a few rewatches but yea, not his BEST. 

Either way, it's cool to find out that one of the greatest working directors has so many similarities with my boss.