Millburn’s own Anne Hathaway has some news about director Christopher Nolan — he’s not a fan of chairs.
At least not on his film sets, that is.
Hathaway, 37, dished on Nolan during a “Les Misérables” video chat reunion with Hugh Jackman for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” issue. The actors co-starred in the 2012 film as Fantine and Jean Valjean (Hathaway won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her role).
In the interview, published Monday, Hathaway initially name-checks Christopher Nolan as one director among several who don’t allow cellphones on set (the others, Jackman said, are Denis Villeneuve and Darren Aronofsky).
“Chris also doesn’t allow chairs,” she continues. “I worked with him twice. He doesn’t allow chairs, and his reasoning is, if you have chairs, people will sit, and if they’re sitting, they’re not working. I mean, he has these incredible movies in terms of scope and ambition and technical prowess and emotion. It always arrives at the end under schedule and under budget. I think he’s onto something with the chair thing.”
The actress goes on to describe her experience of working with Nolan when she played Catwoman in 2012 film “The Dark Knight Rises,” which filmed scenes in Newark. (Zoe Kravitz plays the part in the upcoming movie “The Batman.”)
“You know how you have those jobs and you just go, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to work again because this was such fun?‘ I’m such a director nerd,” she tells Jackman, 51. “I love just seeking out the best directors I can and then just watching them.
“Chris’ whole approach to filmmaking is one of my favorite ones,” Hathaway says. “He’s broken it down to its most minimal, but also his movies are just so huge and ornate. That combination of really being intentional about what it was that we were doing — and also, he’s just so inspiring.
That was what he told me to get me to embrace the physical side of the character.”
But the idea of Nolan banning chairs on set is what resounded on social media, where people criticized and roasted Nolan for the rule. Some pointed out that such a measure, if all-encompassing, would unnecessarily present an obstacle to people with disabilities.
Others posted images of Robert Pattinson sitting on various surfaces during the filming of “The Batman,” directed by Mat Reeves. And others posted scenes from Nolan films — like “Inception” — where actors do, indeed, sit (so are they not working??).
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