Timothée Chalamet

I saw an interview with him today, Sonic the Hedgehog. They said, why did you do this? He said, for the money. What a life. Because when Bruce Almighty was coming out, I mean, really, he was like the biggest. Oh, yeah.

and it's direct to the consumer in some sense. Like, you do whatever the fuck you want, and if people are vibing with it, you'll know, and whatever. In the movie industry, you do kind of have to, you gotta be reliable. You know, a musician, you show up whenever you want. They could be a rockstar to show up four hours late. If you're three hours late to a movie, they gotta call insurance.

You cost a million dollars now, you'll never work again. So there's a part of the job that's obedient, in a sense. But the best art and the best shit we see is stuff that, you know, is- People showed up for. People showed up, but also where they broke rules in a sense. I was just talking to – Oh, yeah. Yeah, and so it's a fine line, and I look at it like this.

This is my inner Tom Cruise where I want movies to be seen, and I don't want to live an unobedient life, but I also want at a time where maybe Hollywood or a movie maker has got a perception of like – sometimes being out of touch or something, or definitely like awards type movies.

I want, especially a movie about Bob Dylan, I want, in all the movies I work on, that's why I did Dune, that's why I did Wonka, and I'm proud that those movies, I know I'm not supposed to pat myself on the back, but those movies were big, you know? Like in the movie industry, or the movie business, brick and mortar theaters, they don't, they don't do the business they once did.

Some of that's inevitable because of streaming, but I want to put my best foot forward. You gotta, you gotta give back to the industry that gave to you. That's really my MO.

And that's why I'm, that's why I'm here that, you know, you know, um, otherwise that's why you can't be the reclusive figure that Bob Dylan or Daniel Day-Lewis or these guys were because the, the, the, it's not about the bottom line, but the, the attention isn't guaranteed the way it used to be. You know what I mean? I hope this doesn't sound like too inside baseball or whatever.

Yeah. And then also I had a full ass real life before my career took off, like in the East village in New York. So, um, not that my life isn't real now, but like obviously on these press tours and stuff, the days are micromanaged in some way, but man, you, here's the thing. That's another thing I say, like as a musician or as a pop star, whatever, Your music can be about your erosion of humanity.

It could be about, hey, I'm driving this car, and this is the crazy lifestyle I live. But if you're an actor, if you lose your sense of humanity, if you lose your stink, for lack of a better word, people will see that on screen. You do see it on screen. Oh, you see them too fancy. You see them out of touch. People are going to know.

That's why the Safdie movie I just did, man, he put me through the ringer. Really? Oh, yeah. I felt like he was testing me early on.

Yeah, look, Josh knew me since I was 21. Josh Safdie?

That's one of the best movies. There you go, man. And Good Time. You know, Good Time with Robert Pattinson, he directed, too. I haven't seen that.

Yeah, for sure. For sure. But, you know, like early on, we had stuff that could have been stunt guys on this movie, on Marty Supreme. And I saw him wanting me to do it. And part of me was like, this feels like a test, you know? And I wanted to show him. And now I feel like I've emerged from the other side with no broken bones or whatever, thank God.

And Josh, I know I'm supposed to be talking about the Bob Dylan movie, but Josh is like... Yeah, Josh is the real deal, man. And seriously, Josh Safi, he's like the modern-day Scorsese. Dang, I want to meet that guy. Oh, dude, you would love him.

Yeah. I would like to meet him.

He could play Abraham Lincoln.

I could play Tad Lincoln. Tell him right now. His brother's an actor, Benny. You ever see the Nathan Fielder show with Emma Stone on Showtime?

That's his brother.

Yeah, this is a crazy, crazy fucking movie.

It's only on Christmas you can see it. It comes out on Christmas day. Biggest journey was the music and the voice. And also I've never had my phone off the entire movie. I had three months to play this guy. And then the rest of my life I never get to play him again. So I was locked in. You're never supposed to say you're competitive, but I want, you know, there's been a lot of music biopics.