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\u201cI think it\u2019s an incredible performance,\u201d Nolan added. \u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019ll see a better performance this year or most other years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nolan and Safdie have a history together as Nolan directed the actor-filmmaker in \u201cOppenheimer<\/a>,\u201d which also featured \u201cThe Smashing Machine<\/a>\u201d star Emily Blunt<\/a> in an Oscar-nominated supporting role. Safdie met Blunt<\/a> on the \u201cOppenheimer<\/a>\u201d set.<\/p>\n \u201cI heard a rumor that when you were supposed to be learning your lines on my set, you were actually canvassing people to be in your movie,\u201d Nolan quipped to Safdie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dwayne Johnson\u2019s best actor Oscar campaign for \u201cThe Smashing Machine\u201d is getting a surprise boost from none other than Christopher Nolan, who recently appeared on \u201cThe Director\u2019s Cut\u201d podcast for an interview with \u201cSmashing Machine\u201d director Benny Safdie. The \u201cOppenheimer\u201d Oscar winner showered Johnson with praise for his performance as Mma fighter Mark Kerr, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2093133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2093132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Christopher-Nolan-Praises-Dwayne-Johnson-Says-\u2018Smashing-Machine-Will-Be.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093134,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093132\/revisions\/2093134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}