James Cameron has slammed Amy Poehler, more than a decade after she made a joke about the director at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards.
The years-old (and possibly one-sided) beef was revived by Cameron in a recent interview with the New York Times, in which the Avatar and Titanic director said Poehler’s joke about his marriage to Kathryn Bigelow went “too far”.
If you recall, Poehler was on hosting duties alongside Tina Fey at the starry awards ceremony back in 2013, and the pair’s monologue held absolutely zero punches.
Anne Hathaway, Taylor Swift and Ricky Gervais were just some of the celebs who caught strays from the hosts, but it was Poehler’s comments about Cameron that got the biggest reaction from the audience.
Bigelow’s film Zero Dark Thirty — about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden — received multiple Golden Globes nods, but was the subject of much controversy given its depiction of torture.
“I haven’t really been following the controversy over Zero Dark Thirty, but when it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron,” Poehler quipped on stage.
It was one of the most jaw-dropping moments in the monologue, to the point where I think Jessica Chastain is still suffering from lockjaw all these years later.
“Amy Poehler’s remark was an ignorant dig, at an event which is supposed to be a celebration of cinema and filmmakers, not a roast,” Cameron told the New York Times.
“I’m pretty thick-skinned, and happy to be the butt of a good-natured joke, but that went too far. The fact that people found it funny shows exactly what they think of me, even though they have no idea who I am or how I work,” the director added.
Poehler has yet to respond to Cameron’s comments, but as far as the comedy rule of ‘punching up’, it’s safe to say that one of the highest-grossing directors of all time can probably withstand a cheeky joke.
Cameron wasn’t the only one unimpressed by the monologue.
During the same ceremony, Fey made a joke about Swift’s dating life — saying the pop star “needs some me-time to learn about herself” — and it prompted a fiery response from Swift herself.
“You know, Katie Couric is one of my favourite people,” Swift told Vanity Fair back in 2013.
“Because she said to me she had heard a quote that she loved, that said, ‘there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.'”
Fey responded at the time by telling Entertainment Tonight, “If anyone was going to get mad at us, I thought it would be James Cameron. I did not see that one coming. It was a joke, and it was a lighthearted joke. And it’s a shame that she didn’t take it in the crazy-aunt spirit in which it was intended.”
Well, it seems Cameron did get mad at the duo, albeit over a decade later…
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