{"id":811515,"date":"2026-07-19T05:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/811515\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T05:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:01:09","slug":"matt-damon-says-christopher-nolan-hates-uggs-still-doesnt-like-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/811515\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon says Christopher Nolan hates Uggs, still doesn’t like chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 2020<\/a>, a minor controversy broke out over the state of Christopher Nolan\u2019s sets, after Anne Hathaway\u2014then two films into a collaboration that\u2019s now stretched into three, courtesy of The Odyssey<\/a>\u2014noted in a\u00a0Variety\u00a0conversation<\/a> with fellow Nolan alum Hugh Jackman that the director didn\u2019t like chairs. \u201cChris also doesn\u2019t allow chairs,\u201d an admiring Hathaway said at the time, after noting Nolan bans cellphones from his sets. \u201cI worked with him twice. He doesn\u2019t allow chairs, and his reasoning is, if you have chairs, people will sit, and if they\u2019re sitting, they\u2019re not working.\u201d Hathaway\u2019s comments kicked off enough of a little social media firestorm\u2014as a lot of people piped up to note that sitting down at work is a pretty obvious accessibility, health, and comfort issue, while others found photo proof from Nolan\u2019s sets that this whole thing was mostly aimed at folks like producers and stars, and not below-the-line crew\u2014that Nolan\u2019s reps had to put out a statement clarifying that Hathaway only meant \u201cdirectors chairs clustered around the video monitor,\u201d and that \u201cChris chooses not to use his but has never banned chairs from the set. Cast and crew can sit wherever and whenever they need and frequently do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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They may now be gearing up to do so again\u2014while also sending Matt Damon a note to please maybe check with Hathaway before saying stuff like this\u2014because the actor has just become the latest to spread Nolan\u2019s allegedly sitting-free gospel. Damon was filming an episode of YouTube series Royal Court with Hathaway this week when the pair were asked about the \u201ccommandments\u201d of a Christopher Nolan set, and Damon was quick to chime in: \u201cThou shall not sit down,\u201d the modern Odysseus cheerfully asserts. \u201cThere are no chairs on set.\u201d (Hathaway, notably, keeps her firmly mouth shut when this topic comes up.)<\/p>\n

Other commandments were of the more expected variety, including a requirement to work hard, and Hathaway noting that while food is readily available, \u201cLunch shall not linger.\u201d Amusingly, she also noted that \u201cThou shall not wear Uggs,\u201d which got a laugh from Damon. \u201cHe hates Uggs!\u201d Damon said of Nolan. \u201cI think they just symbolize leisure in a way he\u2019s not comfortable with.\u201d Meanwhile, Nolan himself<\/a> has said that making\u00a0The Odyssey\u00a0pushed him to \u201cthe limits of my own stamina and everybody\u2019s stamina\u201d; we can only hope some mad genius will someday invent a device that might allow the director to preserve some of that precious stamina, possibly by taking some of his body\u2019s weight off of his legs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in 2020, a minor controversy broke out over the state of Christopher Nolan\u2019s sets, after Anne Hathaway\u2014then…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-811515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}