Timothée Chalamet

Flawed in a human way, and a little... Especially in your early 20s, man, you're trying to figure out your life.

Were you a saint in your early 20s? Dude...

You're at the game.

Drew Brees jersey on your 16th Miller Lite.

Man, exactly. And that's something I could relate to, not in the relationships necessarily in my life, but you know, you feel like your career gets going. I don't know how you feel about that. And you want to protect your energy and, and, but you still want to have close, you know, friendships and relationships.

And, but at first it's very, it's a hard thing to navigate, particularly if you want to keep writing, you keep wanting to like Bob Dylan, you know? And like you said, he was genuinely great at it. He had a gift from God at that point in his career. He said it in an Ed Bradley interview in 2004. He's like, I feel like God was writing through me. And he says in the interview, I can't do it anymore.

He almost says it like, like, uh, like he misses it.

It's a beautiful moment in this Ed Bradley interview. He just, uh, he says, I can't do it anymore. I don't know how those words were coming to me. Wow. And I feel like musicians even more than actors, I feel like an actor into your 30s and 40s and 50s, as your face ages, you can keep doing great work. And the gravitas of your life lives on your face. You know what I mean?

Right, and so the more you learn in life, the more abilities you're going to have. Yeah, and the more trauma you go through, whatever. And I feel like as a musician, you can still do great shit, but it's really like a young man's game. Yeah, because you have to do all that touring and stuff as well. Yeah, and it beats you up.

exactly you know I love you know it's funny we do these Q&A's so I get the backstage experience my holy shit I'm coming out man like fuck they're gonna say my name out loud I'm all excited and I come out and then as opposed to a rock star I fucking sit in a chair oh yeah and I answer like watch this and I sit down and I try to give poised answers and just make sure your posture's okay the whole time dude it's humiliating posture rocking in the house tonight that shit is so hard to deal with cause I'll be backstage and you hear the crowd like Timothee Chalamet yeah

and then I fucking take my seat yeah yeah and then I'm poised yeah you're like let's go and you sit down and I sit down dude it's humiliating it's like it's very anti uh I don't know what the word is but somebody else probably knows it but yeah I don't know it but um

And sort of the first guy for me in American pop culture that said, I'm gonna do whatever the fuck I want.

Yeah, and that was like sort of blasphemous. Like every artist through the last 30, 40, 50 years that a lot of whom you can't shout out because they basically burned so many bridges. But Bob Dylan was the first. He just wouldn't take no for an answer. He just was fired up about his art. And his perception. No, I don't think it sounds like anything.

Yeah, but it didn't sound corny because he really didn't give a fuck. And that, to me, was really refreshing to work on. Now we live in a time where not only is it hard to be rebellious about your art, but it's as much about the Coliseum's reaction. You think about a clip you like online or something you like or don't like, the first thing you do is you go to the comments.

It's as much about how people are reacting, you know what I'm saying, as it is about the actual thing.

It's kind of harder now.

I don't know what I'm saying. No, no, but yeah, I was just trying to say, and also to avoid that, that's kind of what I'm doing these days, man. You just got to like, you have to bury your head so far. Even like the pictures from the premiere, I'm just like, you know, I just try to put the shutters on because it's not healthy, man. Oh, looking at all your stuff and looking at that?

It's fucking weird. And you're not supposed to do it. No, we're supposed to be, you know, like gathering nuts and berries. No.

What are you talking about, dude? You're not even that good looking. Yeah, killer rabbit, dude. Yeah. Our tribe needs to eat, dude.

Yeah, we got people to feed. We have 17 people and our elder is fucking suffering.