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‘No One Wants to Think That Their Pilot Is Weird’
How Nathan Fielder channeled a longtime personal obsession into his most ambitious project yet.
A few months ago, as anticipation began to build for the second season of Nathan Fielder’s HBO series The Rehearsal, a back corner of Reddit began to vibrate with an exciting theory: that Fielder, a comedian known for his awkward and deadpan persona, was not only secretly an airplane pilot but was rated to fly a Boeing 737 passenger jet, an aircraft orders of magnitude larger and more challenging than anything recreational pilots fly. And every single pilot who flies a two-pilot plane has definitely had moments where they may not have expressed something or been as forceful they want, or they withheld things, or there’s social disconnect in the cockpit, but it didn’t line up with other elements that led to a crash. Or young women who are from the rural areas come to Tokyo, and there are these cafés they can go to where someone will act like a big sister and give them advice on how to live in the city, or meet boys, or whatever they want to do.
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