With Oppenheimer’s box office dominance and critical acclaim, Christopher Nolan is finding himself in a monumental moment, which he got to celebrate on Thursday when he was given the Best Director prize by the New York Film Critics Circle. However, while accepting the prize, he kept things humble by sharing a funny anecdote about the time he was on his Peloton watching a class when the instructor called out one of his films, saying “That’s a couple hours of my life I’ll never get back.” Following his comments going viral, the instructor has shared a message in response.
Jenn Sherman is an instructor on Peloton who hails from New Jersey and was, in fact, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s story. The internet even found the exact moment from the class on Twitter where Sherman asks “Anybody see this shit?” after a song from Tenet comes up on her playlist. She then quipped “because I need a manual” and said the comments Nolan loosely paraphrased. Here’s how Sherman replied:
