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Peloton Instructor Responds After Christopher Nolan Called Out Her Rant About 'Tenet'

Peloton Instructor Responds After Christopher Nolan Called Out Her Rant About 'Tenet'
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After the director told 'Variety' how he was 'dying' during a workout when a Peloton instructor trashed one of his films, the instructor, Jenn Sherman, took to Instagram to walk back her criticism of his 2020 movie 'Tenet.'

After going wildly viral when she was called out by filmmaker Christopher Nolan, Peloton instructor Jenn Sherman has taken to Instagram to respond to Nolan's comments and walk back her criticisms of his 2020 film Tenet.

Sherman became the subject of something of an internet manhunt after Nolan recently referenced comments he heard her make about his film while he was taking her Peloton course in 2020.


After the story went viral, Sherman posted a video to Instagram addressing the uproar.


On January 4, Nolan referenced Sherman's comments during his acceptance speech for the Best Director Award for Oppenheimer at the New York Critics Circle Awards.

He told the audience:

"Directors have a complex emotional relationship with critics and criticism..."
β€œI was on my Peloton. I’m dying. And the instructor started talking about one of my films and said, β€˜Did anyone see this? That’s a couple hours of my life I’ll never get back again!’”
β€œWhen [film critic] Rex Reed takes a s--- on your film he doesn’t ask you to work out!"

Internet sleuths immediately got to work trying to track down who the Peloton instructor was, and which film she was talking about. It wasn't long before they found a clip of her complaining about the notoriously confusing Tenet.

Sherman said:

"Someone’s got to explain this. Yeah I’m not kidding, what the f--- was going on in that movie?"
"Seriously, you need to be a neuroscientist to understand. And that’s two and a half hours of my life that I want back."

Of course, Sherman likely never dreamed Nolan would be in her class that day.

In her video on Instagram, she told her followers:

"Huge day for me when I come to find out that the one and only Christopher Nolan, one of the leading filmmakers of the 21st century, knows who the h*ll I am. I was excited. And then I read the article."

Calling 2020 a "dark time," she went on to say:

"I'm up on the platform, teaching my little class and I'm running my mouth off like I'm known to do. And I make a random comment about a movie that I've seen the night before."
"What do you think the odds are that the director of said movie would take that ride some four years later?"

She then said that while she didn't have a clue what was going on in Tenet (like basically everyone else who saw it), she did see Oppenheimer twice. And as a mea culpa, she offered to let Nolan drag her class the way she dragged his movie.

"You can critique my class. We'll have a great time. You'll sit front row and I promise you, it will be insult free!"

On social media, people were loving this bizarre back and forth between Nolan and his Peloton instructor.





Who knows, maybe this will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship!

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