An off-hand comment rarely comes back to bite someone years after the fact, but Jenn Sherman found herself in precisely that position once Christopher Nolan’s NYFCC acceptance speech came out. It’s an amusing circumstance, and Sherman shared her thoughts on the situation in a video uploaded to her Instagram. Her feelings toward “Tenet” haven’t changed, but she’s very complimentary toward “Oppenheimer.” “I may not have understood a minute of what was going on in ‘Tenet.’ That s*** went right over my head. But I have seen ‘Oppenheimer’ twice. And that’s six hours of my life that I don’t ever want to give back.”
Ultimately, this story should be taken as an amusing anecdote. All parties involved acted with class, and it’s a good reminder of how the world is more interconnected than ever before. Sherman even extended an olive branch to make things right with Nolan: “Mr. Nolan, I’m inviting you to come for a ride with me in the Peloton studio. You can critique my class. You’ll have a great time. You’ll sit in the front row. And I promise you it’ll be insult-free.”
If this Sherman-Nolan collaboration ever occurs, perhaps she could do a class set to the soundtrack of “Oppenheimer.” There’s nothing like listening to “Trinity” to get the blood pumping.
