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Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt hail ‘captain extraordinary’ Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan received praises from Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway, ‘Chris is a good one’
Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway gushed over Christopher Nolan while reflecting on their experience working with the acclaimed director on hit films, Oppenheimer and Interstellar.
Both Blunt and Hathaway, who sat down for a conversation on Variety’s Actors on Actors series expressed their thoughts about Nolan and how they bonded with each other through working in his movies.
During their conversation, Hathaway candidly revealed, “So we’re in the “The Devil Wears Prada” club together. And now we’re in another club together — the Christopher Nolan club,” to which Blunt chimed in, “Yeah. Captain Extraordinary.”
Hathaway went on to gush over the Inception director, saying, “That’s a perfect name for him. When we did “Interstellar,” Matthew McConaughey noted that when we were up in the glacier, the colder it was and the harder the conditions were, the bluer Chris’ eyes became. And the blonder his hair.”
Meanwhile, Blunt also revealed one rare fact about the 53-year-old director, “I always feel that with Chris’ hair. I can tell when he is very happy with a take because his hair starts to dance. It’s almost like he vibrates when he’s happy. He’s not going to tell you that he’s that happy, though, because he’s very English.”
The Love & Other Drugs actress hailed about Christopher Nolan adding, “the part that blows my mind about Chris is that he is authoritative in the best sense of the word. I remember one day we were doing a shot on “The Dark Knight Rises.”
“He came to me beforehand and said, “I just want you to know, this shot has lived in my head for many years. I’m going to be very specific about it. I’m going to make you do it a lot, but it’s not actually you. It’s just because I have it in my head a certain way,” Hathaway continued.
She further noted, “for him to say that in a way where, as an actor, you don’t start to question yourself!”
Blunt while agreeing to Hathaway’s statement noted, “We’ve all been on those sets where the director is a bad dad. You know what I mean? A bad dad who has an ego and an agenda. Chris is a good one.”
To note, Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway appeared in The Devil Wears Prada in 2006.
