Peloton Instructor Invites Christopher Nolan to Take Her Class 'Insult-Free' After She Complains About His Movie

Mar. 15, 2025

Christopher Nolan, Jenn Sherman.Photo:Cindy Ord/Getty, Jenn Sherman/Instagram

Cindy Ord/Getty, Jenn Sherman/Instagram

Peloton instructor Jenn Sherman is invitingOppenheimerdirectorChristopher Nolanto take one of her classes “insult free” after she complained about one of his movies.

“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 hell I am. I was excited…and then I read the article,” she began.

Sherman apologized for the awkward moment where she complained aboutNolan’s movie from that year,Tenet, saying it was “two and a half hours of my life that I want back.”

“Listen, it was 2020. It was a dark time. 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 I had seen the night before,” Sherman explained. “What do you think the odds are that the director of said movie would take that ride some four years later? Yeah, that would only happen to me.”

“So here’s what I want to say. I may not have understood a minute of what the hell was going on inTenet,that s— went right over my head. But I have seenOppenheimertwice and that’s six hours of my life that I don’t ever want to give back,” she continued. “So Mr. Nolan, I’m inviting you to come take a ride with me in the Peloton studio. You can critique my class, we’ll have a great time. You’ll sit in the front row and I promise you, it’ll be insult-free. Let me know. Take me up on it.”

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Nolan mentioned hearing Sherman’s criticism during the New York Film Critics Circle Awards Gala on Wednesday.

“I was on my Peloton. I’m dying. And the instructor started talking about one of my films and said, ‘Did anyone see this? That’s a couple hours of my life I’ll never get back again!' " Nolan said while accepting the best director award, according toVariety.

“When [film critic] Rex Reed takes a s— on your film he doesn’t ask you to work out,” joked Nolan. “In today’s world, where opinions are everywhere, there is a sort of idea that film criticism is being democratized, but I for one think the critical appreciation of films shouldn’t be an instinct but it should be a profession.”

In a resurfaced clip of cyclist’s class, Sherman is exercising to a song from the Tenet soundtrack.

“This song is from a movie calledTenet. Did anybody see this s—? Did anybody see this besides me? Because I need a manual,” Sherman said at the time. “Someone’s gotta explain this. I’m not kidding.”

“What the f— was going on in that movie — do you understand?” she continued. “Seriously, you need to be a neuroscientist to understand. And that’s two and a half hours of my life that I want back. I want it back.”

source: people.com