Chris Pine spoke about the development and release of his directorial debut this week Pole man The film was “the best thing that ever happened to me”, despite almost universally bad reviews.
“It’s made me double over with joy,” Pine told host Josh Horowitz on Thursday’s episode. Happy and confused The podcast as an actor… basically it’s about the game, right? What we do is basically be kids for hours a day and reassure,” he added: “There’s an underdog quality to it that I never want to lose.”
Pole manwhich debuted at the Toronto Film Festival last fall, follows Pine as a down-on-his-luck pool technician in Los Angeles who discovers the theft of water in a 1974 hoax. China Town. The film was panned by critics, with The Hollywood Reporter writing that the project “goes off the rails right from the start and spirals downward with alarming speed.”
The bad reviews this week “became a real Jesus moment for me, in terms of seeing how resilient I am,” Pine said.
He added that he was not “totally surprised” by the criticism, saying that he had not set out to make “any kind of special film”, but said that “with a lot of joy behind it” a It was difficult to understand after creating the project. , will then be met with this body of unpleasant things.”
He continued by quoting a favorite Latin phrase that translates to, “There was some schism.” Passion grows from injury.
“I like the idea,” he said. “Yes, the cut hurts, it hurts in the moment, but as the scar tissue builds, as the healing process takes place, you benefit from growth and flexibility in sitting in your being that you strive for. Do say.”
Pine says the lesson helped remind him that his satisfaction with the project ultimately depended only on himself. “After the reviews in Toronto I was like, maybe I just made a pile of shit,” he recalled. “So I went back and watched it, and I was like, I love this movie.”
Pole man Now it will hit theaters on Friday.
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