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Jenn Sherman, the Peloton instructor who Christopher Nolan cheekily called out during a recent award ceremony in New York, has responded to be caught red-handed by the acclaimed director.
While accepting the award for Best Director at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Nolan mentioned that while he was taking a Peloton ride one day, he came across an instructor tearing into one of his movies. Nolan, being the gentleman that he is, did not mention the movie or the instructor.
“I was on my Peloton. I’m dying. 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!’” Nolan said. “When [film critic] Rex Reed takes a s— on your film he doesn’t ask you to work out!”
The internet, however, figured it out almost immediately: the movie was Tenet and the instructor was Jenn Sherman (and she was right, by the way).
“This song is from the soundtrack of a movie called Tenet. Anybody see this s—? Did anybody see this besides me? Cause I need a manual. Someone’s gotta explain this,” Sherman says in the midst of a workout.
“I’m not kidding: what the f— was going on in that movie? Do you understand? Seriously, you need to be a neuroscientist to understand. And that’s two-and-a-half hours of my life that I want back. I want it back.”
After being snooped out by the internet, Sherman decided it was time to address the situation so she hopped on TikTok and Instagram to share the following video.
“Huge day for me that I come to find out that the one and only Christopher Nolan, one of the leading filmmakers of the 21st century knows who the hell I am, I was excited. And then I read the article,” Sherman begins.
“Listen, it was 2020, it was a dark time. I’m up on the platform teaching my little class and I’m running my mouth off like I’m known to do and I make a random comment about a movie I had seen the night before. What do you think the odds are that the director of said movie would take that ride some four years later?” she relatably explains.
“So here’s what I want to say: I may not have understood a minute of what the hell was going on in Tenet, that s— went right over my head, but, I have seen Oppenheimer twice and that’s six hours of my life that I don’t ever want to give back. So, Mr. Nolan, I’m inviting you to take a ride with me at Peloton Studio, you can critique my class, we’ll have a great time, you’ll sit in the front row, and I promise you it’ll be insult-free!” the video concludes.
As somebody who considers Christopher Nolan one of the best living directors and has watched Oppenheimer like five times now (twice in theaters and a few times at home), I must say that I absolutely agree with Sherman’s analysis of Tenet, as I wrote in my review almost four years ago that Nolan finally jumped the shark.
How fitting that he’d follow that up with Oppenheimer, which might prove to be his magnum opus.