{"id":366370,"date":"2025-12-23T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366370\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T09:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:21:07","slug":"james-cameron-blasts-amy-poehlers-infamous-golden-globes-joke-as-ignorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366370\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron blasts Amy Poehler’s infamous Golden Globes joke as ‘ignorant’"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Cameron<\/a> is not ready to make nice.\n<\/p>\n

The Avatar: Fire and Ash director looked back on the highs, lows, and many phases of his storied Hollywood career in a recent interview with the New York Times<\/a>. Touching on his reputation as an exacting, demanding, sometimes even difficult director to work with, Cameron offered rare comments about a joke made at an awards show that still stings over a decade later.\n<\/p>\n

“I haven’t really been following the controversy over Zero Dark Thirty,” Amy Poehler<\/a> said from the stage of the 2013 Golden Globes<\/a>, where that film’s director and Cameron’s ex, Kathryn Bigelow, was up for the Best Director trophy. “But when it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron.”\n<\/p>\n

The Canadian filmmaker stayed mum at the time about Poehler’s wisecrack, which drew shocked laughter from the audience. But he now looks back on the joke as “an ignorant dig.”\n<\/p>\n

James Cameron directing Trinity Bliss, Britain Dalton, Jack Champion, and Sigourney Weaver on the set of ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’.<\/p>\n

Mark Fellman\/20th Century Studios<\/p>\n

“I’m pretty thick-skinned, and happy to be the butt of a good-natured joke, but that went too far,” Cameron explained. Especially “at an event which is supposed to be a celebration of cinema and filmmakers, not a roast.”\n<\/p>\n

For Cameron, it wasn’t so much the joke itself that stung, but the reaction it elicited from the audience \u2014 a packed auditorium of his peers. “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,” he said.<\/p>\n

Reports have circulated in the past suggesting that Cameron is a difficult or otherwise unpleasant force to be driving the forward action of a film. He told biographer Rebecca Keegan<\/a> for her 2009 book The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron that despite a “few bright lights among the younger art department people” on the set of 1986’s Aliens, the crew was generally “lazy, insolent, and arrogant.”\n<\/p>\n

“For the most part, we despised them and they despised us,” he said.\n<\/p>\n

The crew of his 1989 sci-fi thriller The Abyss even took to wearing T-shirts on set emblazoned with the message, “You can’t scare me, I work for Jim Cameron.”<\/p>\n

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Some of Cameron’s closest collaborators have enthused about the very same qualities that others seem to single out for criticism. Kate Winslet, who reteamed with Cameron on Avatar: The Way of Water 26 years after first making Titanic together, observed in 2022, “A chef is never gonna send a great dish out to the table if he’s not happy with that plate.”\n<\/p>\n

She described first encountering the sequel script as “a phenomenal experience reading a Jim Cameron script because it’s just so thorough. The guy is such a perfectionist.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Cameron is not ready to make nice. The Avatar: Fire and Ash director looked back on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-366370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}