The King' Star Timothée Chalamet on Getting His 'Anxiety-Inducing' Bowl Cut

How are you working with Batman? Different, I was going to say. Robert Pattinson, new Batman. What do you think about Robert Pattinson as Batman? I think it's going to be awesome. I think it's going to be great. Greg Fraser, an Australian DP, he did Dune. He's shooting the new Batman. So, it's going to be awesome. I just know it's going to be fresh. I don't know in what direction, but I think it's going to be a great new thing. Isn't it interesting how Batman, really like the Joker now, became the new great role to do or something. When you were starting out in acting, were you like, superheroes are going to be the role. But I grew up, you can ask my mom, who's here. People in the elevator growing up used to ask me, well, if they asked me what's your name, if I was five years old, what's your name, I used to say Robin. And actually, every director steered away from putting Robin. Actually, Zack Snyder had a flashback of Robin, but it was like three seconds. And I don't even know if it was Robin by name. But, they steered away from it because it's like, I don't know, it's hard to do dramatically or something. I'm not averse to that. You know, those universes. But not that. Let's talk about how. I'm digging myself in a hole here. I don't know. Let's talk about how. First of all, we just got to talk about, when did David Coyne say, you're getting a bowl cut? That was when I got there. I didn't know that, but that felt like at first it was anxiety inducing, but then it was like, nah, this has to be done. Or else, you can kind of see those period movies without shading anybody, but where they didn't fully you know, where you're like, you don't know what they were going for. And hopefully, this is not that. What did you know about King Henry V? Did you know him? Admittedly, not a lot. I would like to think I knew more Shakespeare maybe than, I don't know, than someone else on the street. But not the Henry and not the three plays. I hope it doesn't sound cheesy. This is one of the coolest parts of the job. The reading, the getting into it, the hours you're spending with the books, the plays, and staying far away from the other movies that were made. And trying to understand it in the lens of David Michaud. And that's what was exciting, ultimately, too. I didn't feel like, if it felt like a contest or climbing up a mountain that Sir Lawrence Olivier, Sir Kenneth Branagh scaled perfectly, excellently, I would have said, thank you for thinking of me. But that's not what we were going for. And I think you've seen it, and I'm sure you know that now. This was just going for a new like a searing portrait of a young man having no clue what circumstance he's in. With a skill set that is short of the circumstance he finds himself in. And then also what I realized, I was like waiting for you to even just smile once. You only chuckle once. Okay, let's say three times. The bar, when Falstaff's in the bathtub, and the little mechanical bird. And the mechanical bird, that's not even a chuckle, that's like a, oh God, get me out of here, kind of thing, yeah. But I see it all in your eyes, in the film. Everything is in your eyes. I appreciate that. I think that's a compliment. No, it is a compliment. I mean, I felt like the more you became I don't know, powerful, and using your power, your eyes got darker. Whoa. So, Robert Pattinson does this French accent. How did you not just laugh? Somebody asked me that today, but truly, again, not in some pretentious way, but if you're doing the scene right, if you're really acting in it, I don't want to spoil it for the audience, that's like a deeply insulting scene. He's like, he's being about as disrespectful as possible. And you gotta think in these days, male ego function, I guess the way it can today too, but function around your power, and your worth, and we can say sizing, I don't want to give it away. But no, so it was a thrill. Yeah.