Two of the big names circling around award season have been Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan and Poor Things star Emma Stone, with both being recognized amongst this year’s Oscar nominees. As it turns out, the filmmaker is a huge fan of Stone’s Showtime series The Curse, which left critics impressed and baffled by its high-level cringe, to the point where he shared his praise directly with co-creators and co-stars Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie during an on-stage event. And as a huge fan of the show myself, I'm in full agreement.
The Curse (available to stream with a Paramount+ subscription) was the subject of a recent Showtime Q&A, with Nolan moderating a spoiler-free chat with Fielder and Safdie about where the show’s concept came from, and what inspired the off-kilter storyline and the unsettling ways its characters lives played out. And the Dark Knight director wasn’t reticent with the compliments, either, starting off by calling the series “incredible,” and saying it excites him because he thinks it could only exist “in the anarchy of the streaming era,” in terms of how different it is.
