Why Timothée Chalamet is Selective with the Movies He Works On

You're never supposed to say you're competitive, but I want you know, there's been a lot of music biopics Yeah, and I wanted to do a great ******* 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 **** 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 **** about you're doing these are These are long ass days, you know, I mean, these are 14-hour days six days a week sometimes, you know three months look I know I know people got it way harder, but I want to feel that grit, you know, I want to feel it You know, I hope people don't laugh at I ******* really I feel like I'm the hardest working man Um, anyway, maybe I shouldn't say that but uh, but you respect what you do. Yeah, cuz you got to what else is the point? I talk about this with friends a lot. Like this is too weird a lifestyle to be Not chill on about yeah, why do this? Yeah, if you're not gonna go as hard as possible. Yeah, I'm Marty Supreme I'm wearing contacts Because he wanted my eyes to be little so he gives me real glasses that **** 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 You know Like the Forrest Gump of sight or what? right, what about do you feel like you have to be like because you're kind of like the good the The it got like the it younger guy in Hollywood for sure for sure, you know But does that feel like It's like do you how do you and a lot of that is a lot of times curtailed by like the industry like you're yeah Like you have a pretty it like I thought you'd come with like in a tank or something. Yeah, you're over here by yourself Yeah, so definitely Kind of I guess maybe against what I was thinking which doesn't mean anything But do you worry about how do you still be yourself and find yourself at a time when you could be so maneuvered by? So many bigger listen man, not to bring it back to the movie, but that's where Bob Dylan's so influential. Oh, this is perfect No, because Bob always followed his path and it was interesting about the movie industry instead okay, like as opposed to the music industry the music industry you write your own music, you know and It's direct to the consumer in some sense like you do whatever the **** you want and if people are vibing with it You'll know and whatever in the movie industry. You do kind of have to there you you got to be reliable You know a musician you show up whenever you want. They could be rockstar show four hours late If you're three hours late to a movie, they got to 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 ---- we see is Stuff that you know people showed up for people showed up But but also where they they broke rules in a sense, you know, I was just talking to you oh, yeah, and and and 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 I don't want to live an unobedient life, but I also want at a time or maybe Hollywood or a movie makes 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 that work and that's why I did Dune That's why I did Wonka and I'm proud of those movies I'm not supposed to pat myself on the back, but I'm 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 got a you got to 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 Otherwise, that's why you can't be the reclusive figure that Bob Dylan or Daniel Day-lewis So these guys were because the but the it's not about the bottom line But the the attention isn't guaranteed the way it used to be. Hmm. You know what I mean? I hope this doesn't sound like to inside baseball. I want inside baseball. I just you know, you're like a real thinker, you know So it's not like you're gonna give some answer that isn't yeah Traveling through your thoughts and you explain it stuff. Yeah, that's perfect. There's no wrong way to answer it. It's a weird thing it's like 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 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 Like it could be about hey, I'm driving this car and this is the crazy lifestyle But if you're an actor if you 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 seem too fancy. You seem out of touch people are gonna know that's why the safety movie I just did man. He put me he put me through the ringer. Really? Oh, yeah I feel like I felt like he was testing me early on What does that mean? So when somebody's like so a director can kind of put you through some ******* he was yeah Josh knew me since I was 21 like a safty safty. Okay. I was 21 cut gems. That's it. That's that movie, right? Yeah, one of the best movies. There you go, man and good and good time, you know good time with Robert Pattinson He directed too. I haven't seen that. I'm getting Robert Pattinson for after. Yeah later. Yeah, for sure for sure. Um, but You know like early on we had stuff that could have been stunt guys on this movie on on Marty Supreme And I saw him wanting me to do it I'm part of me is like this feels like a test, you know And I wanted to show him and then I now I feel like I've emerged from the other side with no broken bones or whatever Thank God, but and and Josh, I know I'm supposed to be talking about the Bob Dylan movie, but Josh, okay It's all you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Josh is the real deal man, like and Seriously, like Josh savvy. He's like the modern-day Scorsese. Oh, dude, you would love him. That's him. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, I would like to meet him. Yeah, he could play Abraham Lincoln. He could play Abraham Lincoln you play Tad Lincoln tell him right now his brother's an actor Benny you ever see um, you said the Nathan Fielder show with Emma Stone on Showtime No, yeah. Yeah, that's his brother. I've seen it. Yeah. Wow. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Wow That must have been awesome man, but yeah that guy that Jim's is so good. I look forward to seeing that Yeah, this is a crazy crazy ******* so directors can do that. So sometimes it's like that it's gonna be a journey