Category: Interviews

Timothée for W Magazine

Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025
Timothée for W Magazine

Timothée Chalamet & Denis Villeneuve Enter a “Deep Dream State”

W – For W’s Directors Issue, the Oscar-nominated actor and filmmaker reunited for a surreal, Lynchian shoot in which Chalamet encounters his Dune predecessor, Kyle MacLachlan.

On a beautiful late afternoon in Los Angeles, Timothée Chalamet burst into the Bar Marmont and bounded straight over to Denis Villeneuve, the Academy Award–nominated director of Dune and Dune: Part Two. Immediately, they embraced and then quickly walked off to a corner of the room, where they huddled and began speaking in French about the evening ahead: Villeneuve would be directing Chalamet in a project for W, photographed by Greig Fraser, the Oscar-winning cinematographer of both Dune films. “Timmy and I have our little French bubble,” explained Villeneuve, who has the calm but decisive manner of a person who has created a cohesive and fascinating cinematic world out of an unwieldy, beloved novel. Hailing from Quebec, Villeneuve is a native French speaker, and Chalamet, who moves fast and has a charismatic mix of puppylike enthusiasm, extreme talent, and an innate wish to be great, has been speaking French since he was a child. “In our bubble, we can be on set with 400 people, and still we can speak privately about the character or life or whatever is happening in that moment,” said Villeneuve. “We have special access through language.”

Villeneuve’s scenario for the shoot involved an element of surprise: A waiter at this bar, played by Chalamet, would serve a customer who turns out to be his spiritual twin. “I love the idea of a young bartender who gives a drink to his double,” said Villeneuve.
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Timothée for Rolling Stone Magazine

Monday, Nov 18, 2024
Timothée for Rolling Stone Magazine

How Timothée Chalamet ‘Pushed the Bounds’ to Play Bob Dylan in ‘A Complete Unknown’

ROLLING STONE – The actor and his co-stars take us deep inside the year’s biggest biopic

He’s traveling through the north country today. Eighty miles from Canada, where the winds, it’s been said, hit heavy on the borderline. As his rented Toyota pickup truck reaches a tree-shaded suburban intersection, he kills the engine and bounds out into late-January air. He’s layered a down jacket over a gray sweatshirt, the hood yanked over his mussed brown hair. His destination is a boxy, cream-colored little house on the corner, down a walkway framed by twin shrubs. To its left is a newish street sign: Bob Dylan Drive.

He spent the past hour and 20 minutes navigating an iced-up Highway 53, fishtailing enough between Duluth and Hibbing, Minnesota, to send the insurers of at least two major Hollywood fran­chises scrambling for Xanax. But Timothée Chalamet is on a mission, and this pilgrimage is one of his final quests.

He was supposed to have four months to get ready to play a young Bob Dylan onscreen. Instead, thanks in part to a pandemic and a few Hollywood strikes, he’s had five years. It’s all gone pretty far. He started off hardly knowing a thing about Dylan, and ended up a self-proclaimed “devoted disciple in the Church of Bob,” dropping references to outtakes (1963’s “Percy’s Song” is an obsession) and Dylan-bootleg YouTube channels. “I had to push the preparation, the bounds,” he’ll tell me, “almost to psychologically know I had pushed it.”

He’s been working with a vocal coach, a guitar teacher, a dialect coach, a movement coach, even a harmonica guy. At one point, he wrote out Dylan lyrics on sheets of paper and taped them to his walls. Chalamet brings his acoustic guitar to the singing lessons, where he’ll sometimes, without warning, show up talking in Dylan’s voice. In the film, A Complete Unknown, which opens Dec. 25, we’ll end up hearing Chalamet singing and playing entire songs, for real, live on set. “You can’t re-create it in the studio,” he argues later. “If I was singing to a prerecorded guitar, then all of a sudden I could hear the lack of an arm movement in my voice.”
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“Dune: Part Two” Q&A in NYC (Video)

Sunday, Sep 22, 2024

Q&A for Dune: Part Two with Director Denis Villeneuve and actors Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, and Austin Butler, moderated by Erik Davis in New York City on 9/21/2024.

When Timothée Met Edward

Thursday, Sep 15, 2022

Vogue’s October Cover Star Gets Candid Over A Vegan Burger

BRITISH VOGUE – “I can make breakfast – I make good deviled eggs,” Timothée Chalamet tells British Vogue’s editor-in-chief Edward Enninful, as they slide into a booth at a vegan diner in the October cover star’s hometown, New York. At present, that’s about the limit of Chalamet’s culinary expertise (he’s been too busy racking up acclaimed performances to spend much time in the kitchen), but he’s hoping to expand his repertoire of dishes now that he’s 26. “As I adultify that’d be a good thing to get good at,” he says.

Chalamet may struggle to find a gap in his schedule to devote to it. After his outing as a teenage cannibal in Bones & All – his second project with Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino – he’s set to appear in Wonka, a Willy Wonka origin story from Paddington director Paul King, and a chance for the Chalamet fandom to see their beloved sing and dance. “I’m trying to go where it’s not obvious to go,” he says of the eclectic CV that has set him on the path to becoming the actor of his generation. “I feel like Wonka is symptomatic of that.”

Then, of course, there’s his other new role: British Vogue cover star. Chalamet becomes the first man to fly solo on the front of an issue – a choice Enninful describes as a “no-brainer”. Famously a fashion lover (“You have such an innate sense of style,” Enninful tells the star), the set of a Vogue shoot feels like a natural place for Timothée to find himself. Still, actually seeing himself on the cover feels “extraordinary”, he says. “And weird. And just an honour.”

The Chalamet Effect

Thursday, Sep 15, 2022
The Chalamet Effect

Timothée Talks Fate, Fashion And Being An Old Soul

BRITISH VOGUE – At 26, Timothée Chalamet is already a consummate, cool-as-they-come movie star. As he gets set to become the actor of his generation, Giles Hattersley goes in search of the real boy wonder. Photographs by Steven Meisel. Styling by Edward Enninful.
By Giles Hattersley

He arrives, a princeling in jeans and a rock-metal T-shirt, bounding sprite-like from one of those blacked-out Cadillac tanks preferred by the famous (reluctant or otherwise). It’s June in New York and Timothée Chalamet’s hometown is gently sweltering. But, for once, the paps are nowhere to be seen and so his body language is a joy to behold, as he bounces into Champs, a vegan diner in Brooklyn, somehow channelling both a street-style star and Buster Keaton.

We’re shooting a Vogue video. He enters with curls un-frizzed, a smile that reaches all the way to his eyes and a head to shoulder ratio rarely glimpsed outside of children’s drawings. In a swift half-decade, this publicity-averse, sensitive, ambitious, inscrutable dreamer has become both art-house stalwart (Call Me by Your Name) and box-office king (Dune). Then something odder (certainly rarer) occurred. A baton was placed in his hand, passed down the decades by dint of James Dean and River Phoenix, David Cassidy and Leonardo DiCaprio: Chalamet became boyfriend to an entire generation. In fact, it was DiCaprio (in a moment of near-literal baton passing when they first met in 2018) who bequeathed Timmy his career rule: “No hard drugs and no superhero movies.” So far, so good. Give or take. Oh, to be 26 and Hollywood’s most wanted.
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Timothée for TIME Magazine

Monday, Oct 11, 2021
Timothée for TIME Magazine

Timothée was interviewed for TIME magazine’s next generation leaders issue. Check out the interview and photos below!

Timothée Chalamet Wants You to Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve

TIMETimothée Chalamet and I are on the run, chasing down Sixth Avenue on a bright September day in search of a place to talk. The restaurant in Greenwich Village where we had planned to meet ended up getting swarmed by NYU students while I was waiting for him, chattering excitedly to one another—“Timothée Chalamet is here!” “Shut up!” “Yeah, he’s right outside!”—so, trying to avoid a deluge of selfie seekers, I bolt from the table, tapping Chalamet on the shoulder where he stands under the awning, on the phone, and we make our escape. Face covered with a mask and hoodie pulled up over his curly hair, he’s mostly incognito but still cuts a distinct enough figure that we’d better find a new location fast, and standing at a crosswalk with him, I feel briefly protective, like I should be prepared to body-block an onslaught of fans at any moment.
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