Christopher Nolan explains that he broke his own rules to film the most “devastating” scene in his masterpiece, Interstellar.
Interstellar celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Considered one of the best science fiction films of all time and one of the most ambitious works Christopher Nolan – whose idea was born simply from some notes of the song Hans Zimmer – the film, which grossed 729 million dollars at the global box office, shocked many people… especially for one scene in particular.
And yes, in November 2024, ten years will have passed since we last witnessed one of the most moving scenes in the history of cinema: the one in which Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) discovers that he lost 23 years of his children’s lives in just over three hours. As a reminder, as she traveled through space and time, she aged at an exponentially slower rate than his children, Tom (Timothée Chalamet AND Casey Affleck) and Murph (Mackenzie Foy AND Jessica Chastain), remained on Earth.
In an interview with The Atlantic, Christopher Nolan spoke about filming the scene in question, one of the most moving in the film, and above all about the moment in which Cooper watches videos of his children who have grown up without him over the years. Then comes the tragedy: he left them a few hours ago and now they are adults. The emotional impact is great, as is the actor’s performance in that moment.
And it was during the filming of this essential sequence that Christoph…
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