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James Cameron has called Amy Poehler“Ignorant” jokes were made about him in golden globesSaying that it went “too far”.
titanic director, whose new Avatar the sequel is now in theatersThe filmmaker’s ex-wife was mocked by Poehler at the 2013 ceremony katherine bigelow was nominated for zero Dark Thirty,
Poehler, addressing the controversy surrounding zero Dark Thirtyquipped over the torture scenes: “When it comes to torture, I trust the woman who spent three years married to James Cameron.”
Cameron, who was married to Bigelow from 1989 to 1991, does not view the joke positively and said in a new interview that she was also disappointed that her Hollywood peers found it funny.
“Amy Poehler’s comments were an ignorant dig at an event that is supposed to be a celebration of cinema and filmmakers, not entertainment,” the 71-year-old explained. the new York Times,
“I’m very thick-skinned and happy to be the butt of good-natured jokes, but this went too far. The fact that people found it funny shows what they think of me, even if they have no idea who I am or how I operate.”
Independent Poehler has been contacted for comment.
Poehler’s joke was alluded to cameroon’s reputation For being an exacting perfectionist. titanic Star Kate Winslet once claimed that Cameron had a temper “you wouldn’t believe”, while Avatar lead Sam Worthington said that if a mobile phone went off on set, “he’d nail it to the wall with a nail gun”.
Cameron himself, commenting on his reputation, has stated that Independent In 2013: “Would I bash the cellphone into the wall with a nail gun? Sure, if it shuts off in the middle of a take, but that doesn’t mean I’ll get emotionally angry. I’d do it in a calculated, dramatic way. But when the story is told later, it feels like someone is constantly going off the deep end.”
He also said that if he was as bad as he was being made out to be, people would not continue to work with him. “The reality is passion for the work – the reality is I have people who are very loyal to me and come back project after project, so I can’t be that bad.”
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Winslet is one actor who has returned to work with Cameron Avatar: The Path of Water And Avatar: Fire and Ashes,
However, Cameron acknowledged that he worked to conform to “the image of how a filmmaker should be”, adding: “I think when you combine that with my short-tempered nature because of the low budgets in my earlier productions”, he would have been “difficult”.
But he said his character has “evolved” and “there is no room for this kind of behavior.”
In 2009, both Cameron and Bigelow were in the running for the Oscar for Best Director. Avatar And hurt locker, with cameron’s telling the new York Times He was “a little concerned” that the “meta-narrative” about their marriage would take away from Bigelow’s “credibility as a filmmaker”.
It started turning into a conversation that wasn’t about his movie, and that upset both of us,” he said, but added that, when Bigelow ultimately won, he was “the first one” to his feet to applaud.
Cameron’s three films – titanic, Avatar And Avatar: The Path of Water – is among the top five highest-grossing films of all time. Avengers: Endgame and animated Chinese film Ne Jha 2 Complete the list.
Cameron has been married to Suzy Amis Cameron since 2000.