"Fallout" executive producer Jonathan Nolan has the same stance as his brother, Christopher Nolan, when it comes to chairs on set. They are banned.
Back in 2020, Anne Hathaway caused a frenzy among film fans after saying Christopher doesn't allow chairs on set because it encourages actors not to work.
His brother, Jonathan, is an executive producer of the Amazon Prime series "Fallout." He told Business Insider that the rule caused such a stir because most people don't understand what it's like to be on set.
"The chair thing is so funny because it's people who've never been on a set. The only people who ever get chairs on a set are the fucking muckety-mucks, right?" he said. "It's always the producers, right?"
(Muckety-muck is slang for an arrogant or self-important person.)
"So there's no chairs because it kind of keeps everyone else on their feet. So the no-chairs thing is about keeping everyone in the same place and moving along."
"It's not like there were a lot of chairs there to begin with. So yes, we have the same rule, for the most part. I don't tend to sit down very much. We do tend to work quite quickly," he said.
In 2023, Cillian Murphy noted that Christopher Nolan — who directed him in "Oppenheimer" — is also not "sympathetic" to toilet breaks while filming.
Nolan told BI that the no-chairs rule is part of creating the post-apocalyptic world in the series, which is also why they shot on location in Namibia and the salt flats in Utah.
"We shoot on film on location. One of the great challenges with 'Fallout' was that in each of the games, the environment, the place, the setting is such a huge part of the storytelling."
However, Nolan then said that the only proper rule on set was about hiring people that everyone could get on with.
"But no, the only rule on our set is no assholes and a great work ethic," he added
"Everyone we're so lucky on every project we worked on and on 'Fallout' to have this incredibly talented cast and crew and people who were really ambitious when we show up to work every day wanting to go for it."
"Fallout" streams on Prime Video on April 11.
