Chris Pine talks about ‘best thing’ since ‘flexible’ directorial debut

Chris Pine is vocal about the response to his feature directorial debut.

Forty-three-year-old Pine opened up to host Josh Horowitz on the Thursday, May 9 episode of happy sad confused About Podcast pole man (Which will be released in theaters on May 10). Pine co-wrote, starred in, and directed the film.

“After the film’s September 2023 Toronto International Film Festival premiere and the unfavorable reviews that came with it, I felt like, ‘Maybe I made a bunch of crap,'” the director admitted.

But, he added, “I went back and looked at it. I like this movie very much. I love this film very much.”

pole man According to its official synopsis, “A native Los Angeleno who spends his days taking care of the pool of a Tahiti Tiki apartment block and fighting to make his hometown a better place to live”.

In April, Pine shared with people magazine A glimpse of working behind the camera on a major film for the first time, she describes the process as a “month-long situation”. I didn’t have time to think or think in my head.”

With costars Annette Bening, DeWanda Wise, Ariana DeBose, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Danny DeVito and others, creating the comedy-mystery was “a lot of fun and the most creative thing I got to do on set.”

Pine explained that the criticism and the entire filming process demonstrated “how resilient I am.”

“In the end it’s the best thing that happened to me. It’s forced me to double the joy and really forced me to double down on what I love most about my job – which, lest you forget, it’s basically what the game is about. .