Timothée Chalamet

And I wanted to do a great fucking job, man. I love Bob Dylan. I love this artist. None of this is for granted. This little misconception about actors, too, and acting, you can have a cushy job on a TV show. If you don't give a fuck about your work, it could be a great lifestyle, right? You're making, like, high six figures, maybe low seven figures, and you're just showing up when you want.

If you give a fuck about what you're doing, these are long-ass days. Wow. You know what I mean? These are 14-hour days, six days a week sometimes, three months. Look, I know people got it way harder, but I want to feel that grit. I want to feel it. I hope people don't laugh at it. I feel like I'm the hardest working man. Anyway, maybe I shouldn't say that. You respect what you do.

Yeah, because you got to. What else is the point? I talk about this with friends a lot. This is too weird a lifestyle to be... Nonchalant about. Yeah, why do this?

If you're not going to go as hard as possible.

On Marty Supreme, I'm wearing contacts cause he wanted my eyes to be little. So he gives me real glasses that fuck my eyes up and I'm wearing contacts underneath to offset what the glasses are doing. And my vision was, my vision was basically fucked up until a day ago. Every time I took these glasses off, my, my vision was skewed. Wow. You know, um,

You're like the Forrest Gump of sight or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Sort of. Dude, Forrest Gump is... We had the Forrest Gump ping pong coaches. Same. Lovely couple in LA, Diego and Wei. Been married 40 years. Wei is a Chinese ping pong champion.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. From the 80s. She pretty cool? She's like... We would train... Yeah, Wei. Wei Li. There she is. There she is. That's my ping pong coach. You know, we train for three hours and then she said, let's play for real. And she's like, she's probably like 97 pounds. She's like five foot one. And she's just like, yeah. Unbelievable. You're not getting a point across. Yeah.

Do you...

I didn't sleep on set, and you know, method acting, that gets like a bad rap, people think it's just like a person being a prick, and obliging everyone around them to subscribe to a reality that's not real. The thing I came up with, I call it- Oh dude, that's just everybody's stepdad as well, you know? Yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah, that's method acting, I need a beer!

Yeah, exactly, and you, yeah, and uh, yeah. Damn it! Give me that goddamn Miller Lite. But I call it method energy because, you know, you'd shit on me too if I'm coming off like a dick. But, you know, I just tried to, no cell phones, nothing that reminds you of the present. And try to treat it like Bob Dylan as much as possible, especially if you're playing somebody that iconic.

That was tough too. He didn't feel like an icon when he was himself. He was just living his fucking life. So if you talk to too many people, you got to avoid earworms.

Yeah. That's why Edward Norton, I love him. He's great. Pete Seeger in the movie. But he's like, Edward Norton is a little bit his character in the movie Birdman, if you ever saw that. He's like a very confident, opinionated actor. So I would kind of have to, you know. And then he caught me watching Rounders one day. Oh, yeah. And then it was over. Then he knew he had me.

Yeah, he caught me in the hair and makeup show. He's like, oh, you like Rounders? And I was like, all right, now we're going to talk. Oh, hold me for a second. That's a lot. I'm still jumping on you at the end of this.

I'm getting you out of your comfort zone.

What's the most comfortable you've ever felt in your life?

Like most in your body, no drugs, no alcohol.

I guess. He just has a lot of just expendable income to be that guy, you know? That's the other thing, like, where I want to be humble about putting movies out there. People's attention is elsewhere now. It's quick.

Yeah, and you got to convince someone to see A Complete Unknown on Christmas Day and take the $15 or $20, whatever the fuck it is now, and instead of watching, you know, Mr. Beast in the Arctic...

Scoot McNary. He's amazing. Yeah.

And he, and he doesn't have a line in the movie. He doesn't have a line because he's so sick. Because he's so sick.