That’s Sir Christopher Nolan to you, peasant
Christopher Nolan and wife/producing partner Emma Thomas are receiving a British knighthood and damehood, respectively
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Ensuring that he finally has something to talk with Sir Michael Caine about the next time they end up running into each other, Christopher Nolan has just been knighted for his contributions to film. Both Nolan and his wife, producer Emma Thomas, have been selected to receive the honor from the British monarchy who, we can only assume, really liked it when Nolan made that airplane explode real good in Tenet.
Per the BBC, Nolan and Thomas are to receive a knighthood and damehood, respectively, which grants them the right to add several extra letters to the backs of their names, one set of complementary swords apiece, and access to exclusively discounted seat upgrades when flying with British Airways. [Note to editor: Remember to look up whether any of that is actually true, or if we just dreamt it, before publishing.] The announcement of the honors was a bit unorthodox, actually, since the British royals usually dole these things out twice a year, on New Year’s, and then the monarch’s birthday; the current status of King Charles, who’s missing royal duties at the moment due to currently undergoing cancer treatment, may have led to the alteration of normal procedures.
Nolan and Thomas were both born in London, and met in their first week of university, getting married in 1997. Nolan gets the lion’s share of attention for their work, obviously, serving as director and at least co-writer on most of their movies. But Thomas has served as a producer on every one of those films, and has been credited for setting up and running “notoriously harmonious” sets; she’s often noted as being one of the key reasons Nolan has a reputation for making very big movies that nevertheless arrive on-time and under budget.
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I just don’t understand how an enormously successful film director from the UK gets knighted before me, even though I’m an American who’s accomplished nothing and is, by most accounts, a burden on society.
Perhaps you’re talking too audibly. Have you considered, when you’re speaking, playing music that makes it hard to hear what you’re saying?
The secret is that the knighthood stuff is all just made-up LARPing. You can start your own club (with blackjack and hookers) that issues knighthoods!In fact, I’ll do it right now. I hereby knight thee, FilthyWhore, as a Knight of the A.V. Club! You can now put the letters “O.C.” (“Of Cock”) after your name.
Look, it’s wrong and terrible to judge anyone on their physical appearance.But it’s also fun, and if there’s any couple who deserves to be part of the six-fingered British aristocracy it’s one where the wife’s got a manlier jawline than the husband.They’ll fit right in.
When some of these celebs get knighted I always wonder if any of them feel a bit conflicted about it. Not Nolan, for sure.
I don’t understand the modern British monarchy or why being knighted is a thing in 2024, but congrats to Sir Nolan and Dame Thomas!
Now do Cumberbatch, you cowards