James Cameron is one of those directors I wish would stop speaking. The director of Avatar loves to share his thoughts an opinions on movies. And now he’s telling the world how angry he is that Amy Poehler joked about him 12 years ago. Not helping your case here, Jim.
The joke came when Kathryn Bigelow, Cameron’s ex-wife, was nominated at the Golden Globes for her film Zero Dark Thirty. Poehler and co-host Tina Fey joked at the start of the ceremony, poking at the nominees and other filmmakers. The joke in question had Poehler saying “When it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron.”
Now, 12 years later, Cameron is still mad about it. He was profiled by The New York Times for his film Avatar: Fire and Ash and brought up how he is “thick-skinned” but he’s still talking about something that happened a decade ago and was a joke at an award show. Cameron shared that he thought the joke was an “ignorant dig.”
“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 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.”
James Cameron Shares How He Still Supports Kathryn Bigelow
The joke that Poehler made was never about the actual relationship between Bigelow and Cameron but rather the, at times, insufferable way Cameron speaks. This all happened prior to him missing the point on the Marvel Cinematic Universe and continually saying rude and nonsensical things about the franchise. Still, he made it clear that he is still supportive of Bigelow’s career.
“I was the first one on my feet applauding,” Cameron said. “Kathryn and I thought the whole meta-narrative around us was pretty funny. I was a little concerned that it would just take away from her credibility as a filmmaker. It started to turn into a conversation that wasn’t about her film, and that bothered both of us.”
All of that is well and good but the point, James Cameron, is that Poehler and Fey were simply making a joke about you. So Mr. Thick-skinned was too stuck on being called “torturous” to get over it.
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