{"id":2143767,"date":"2025-11-09T01:27:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2143767"},"modified":"2025-11-09T01:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:27:36","slug":"dwayne-johnson-reveals-christopher-nolans-rave-reaction-to-smashing-machine-at-hamiltons-behind-the-camera-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dwayne-johnson-reveals-christopher-nolans-rave-reaction-to-smashing-machine-at-hamiltons-behind-the-camera-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson Reveals Christopher Nolan\u2019s Rave Reaction to \u2018Smashing Machine\u2019 at Hamilton\u2019s Behind the Camera Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While presenting Benny Safdie<\/a> with a Hamilton Behind the Camera Award for directing \u201cThe Smashing Machine<\/a>,\u201d Dwayne Johnson<\/a> shared the thoughtful first reaction that Christopher Nolan<\/a> had to the biographical sports drama and its unique directing style. Talking about Safdie\u2019s bold decisions to keep the camera out of the ring and present fights from the crowded perspective of the audience, Johnson said, \u201cIt paid off the first time Christopher Nolan saw the movie and said to Benny, \u2018I mean this in the most respectful and complimentary way, but I feel like I shouldn\u2019t be watching this. I feel like I\u2019m violating their space. And it\u2019s so counterintuitive as a director. I really want to give you credit and flowers for that.’\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cOppenheimer<\/a>\u201d director previously praised \u201cThe Smashing Machine<\/a>\u201d in an interview with Safdie on the \u201cDirector\u2019s Cut\u201d podcast in October. There, he complimentarily…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While presenting Benny Safdie with a Hamilton Behind the Camera Award for directing \u201cThe Smashing Machine,\u201d Dwayne Johnson shared the thoughtful first reaction that Christopher Nolan had to the biographical sports drama and its unique directing style. Talking about Safdie\u2019s bold decisions to keep the camera out of the ring and present fights from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2143768,"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":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2143767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","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\/11\/Dwayne-Johnson-Reveals-Christopher-Nolans-Rave-Reaction-to-\u2018Smashing-Machine.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143767","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=2143767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143769,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143767\/revisions\/2143769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2143768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}