This is really crazy for me,
because I've never experienced such a thing. You keep asking yourself, like: What's happening? How did I get here? If I didn't have this "French side",
I wouldn't be in that film. My "French side" is the fact that I listen. It's the fact that I'm a football fan, a Saint-Etienne fan. I think there's a natural tension, happening between two people, who haven't shown their love yet. And it's just that. And what we wanted to do, was to communicate this emotion, this tension, and do it in a natural way. And it's often a physical dialogue rather than an oral one. That's what I like as a fan of cinema. Moments that seem spontaneous, and not premeditated. Alright, I'm speaking French but I apologize to everyone here because it's not perfect. - So if I make mistakes, like gender mistakes...
- We don't care. We don't care, we don't care. Timothée, this is your first French talk-show. Your father is French, your mother is American, - but we can speak French, right?
- Yes. Wait, I'm going to take this off, because... I have no use for this. What words do you often hear? The adjectives you often hear.
The three main adjectives you hear. We often get to hear "moving", people often talk about one specific part of the film, which involves an actor called Michael Stuhlbarg, who plays our, rather my father. And... and there's this monologue, which is very moving because it's a sort of it's a sort of guide... a guide about how to suffer, but also about how to fall in love without... without feeling too much pain. - Fuck, my French is really not perfect, so excuse me.
- But it's very good, stop it! - Your French is very very good.
- It's better than mine, that's for sure. I think Armie doesn't like to look at himself on screen,
he doesn't like to watch a romance. And as far as I'm concerned, I don't mind. Because, because it's cool man, we're being in a movie, you know? So the film states something interesting. In a love story, the most courageous,
the one who dares to take the first step is not always the most self-confident. It's not always the oldest one, the most experienced. That's what the film says. But mostly because, in the movie, Elio, the character I'm playing is from Crema, the village where the story takes place. - And that's...
- In Italy. In Italy. And it's mostly Oliver, who's played by Armie, who's American, who feels a bit... out of place, and that's an asset for Elio because he feels a little bit... how do I say that? Cocky, and... And... yeah, he feels a little bit more confident sometimes. But in the same way, Oliver is the one who has a lot experience, who has maybe explored a side of his sexuality
that Elio hasn't experienced yet. So in that respect, he's way more comfortable than Elio. Which side is most like you? - Sorry?
- Which side is most like you? The French side or the American side? Rather European, because he lives in Europe, and mostly because there wasn't this French side in the book. He's a true Italian-American. - But as...
- There are a lot of languages. - There are a lot.
- French, Italian, English... But it's also the director, he wanted to use what I had. And I speak French, a bit. So he wanted to put this French side in it. But there are a lot of, I mean some French actors in the film as well. - Amira Casar.
- Amira Casar, who's excellent in the film. And Esther Garrel, Victoire du Bois, too. And... I think, she's a French actress, right? And especially with Esther, it was a great joy because her brother, Louis Garrel,
who I'm sure a lot of people know about, was my sister's crush back in high school. Like, everyone else's Zac Efron was Louis Garrel for my sister. No, I'm kidding. If my sister is watching this... We've rarely seen a young man filmed like that in cinema. You're half-naked for two hours, and the camera moves around you. It moves around you, you, you, like that. And the camera desires you. It desires you. How do you play that, the object of desire? It's really... I don't know but... I don't know, I think it's really Luca. Our director, who made this film, who created this environment. And mostly because, not only in this film, also his other films A Bigger Splash, and The Protagonist and Melissa P. They all have this tonality... this seductive side to them, this desire, this sexuality. It's cool for me because I understand what is said, and then I wait... He knows about this anecdote. Did the post-production
workers like it, your very short shorts? Can we talk about this? Seriously? - Because actually... can I say that word, "testicules"?
- Yes, everything! - We're on French tv, we can say anything!
- Oh yes, it's true! We can say "balls", we can say "balls" too, "fuck",
we can say anything. - Fuck yeah, man!
Here you go! Actually, the shorts were so short that Armie's testicules kept popping out, so they had to erase them in post-production. - They had to erase them digitally.
- Digitally, that's right. But I have to say... There are moments in life, when one's young, and one sees a peach, and wonders: "what is this peach doing here?" And one decides to trust his instinct, and go for an exploration. - You explain this so well in French!
- Thank you! Yes, thanks a lot! You explain it so well in French... Go see the film. Either see the film or read the book. Because the ones who say that
have neither seen the film nor read the book. And... "neither nor, neither nor". It's great that you're showing this because Elizabeth is here right now. And I'm sure that she's... she's right here. - She's here, in Paris?
- Yeah. - She's 20 metres away.
- Okay. - Not really, she's not literally here.
- She's an American journalist. Yes, that's it. No but, honestly, I'm not trying to sound cheesy or American It's really... I was really the luckiest person in the universe to work with Armie, because, like, for a young actor like me, it was not obvious that my co-star would be so selfless, so humble, and would give himself entirely for this role, as a performer. And now we've known each other for two years. And as I said, I know his wife as well. Like, yesterday in Paris, they were just walking, and I came up behind them like "ah, me too!" And how will you feel? Can you tell us? - What, sorry?
- How will you feel, at the Oscars? Oh, that night? If I'm nervous right now... Drunk. No. No, I hope not because my mom won't be happy. She's going to be my date, I think. We'll see. We'll see, mom, but... She's going to go to the ceremony with you? It's... It's... okay, it's either my mom or my sister, so... If I have the possibility to... The other one is going to take it the wrong way. Yeah, actually it's my sister's birthday so... *cutie singing Happy Birthday to Queen Pauline* You're crazy about hip-hop. - Yeah.
- Right? You love hip-hop? It's true. Do you know a bit about French hip-hop or not at all? Yeah, Soprano *rapping in French adorably* I'm sorry, I'm sorry because I'm sure it's very old. The equivalent in the States would be, like... Anyway, it's nice to hear "Soprano" pronounced in an American way. - May I present you Timothée...
- Chalamet. - Who grew up between Manhattan...
- And Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. - Between Lyon and...
- Saint-Etienne. - Yup. His favorite sport.
- Football. And... cover your ears. - Cover you ears, I don't want you to listen.
- I can't. Well, I'm going to say it. He's going to be nominated for an Oscar. Timothée Chalamet has a film called Call Me By Your Name, he's got another one called Hostiles,
and another one called Lady Bird. He's just shot a movie with Woody Allen.
You're going over the top there. It's been quite special so far. Yeah. Here's a portrait of this young man. It's just so rare to... to have the opportunity to make a film with someone like Luca, with someone like Armie Hammer, so... I have the impression that I had to do this film. How do you cope with pressure? Actually, I don't feel any pressure at the moment. It's more like appreciation for now. We've talked to each other four years ago, here,
in this theatre, for Interstellar. It's a film I really love, but my part was smaller. Now it's a bigger part, we're in the same theatre, so it's gratifying. I was lucky because I started shooting a movie
right after Sundance called Beautiful Boy, And it took three months of shooting. And it was really hard so... I didn't really have the time to really appreciate
what happened at Sundance. But now that the movie is coming out here, in France, everywhere, it's really gratifying and I'm really happy. What this movie has already done,
for the people who've watched it, for me, during the making of this film in Italy, for three months, it's more than I could have ever dreamed of
when I agreed to do it. More than this would be highly appreciated,
but it's not part of my expectations at all. No, it was amazing. Actually, I was at this theatre four years ago
because I had a small part in Interstellar, so it's extremely gratifying to come back with a movie
with Luca, and Armie as well. - Are you happy with this film?
- Ah, yes! But as I said, it's... I tell myself... I don't know, I don't think I'm ever going to be
in a film, during the course of my life, that will be as good, as moving, as this one. *Timmy confusing genders, smol bean* So I'm very... I'm very... - I love it. There are no words for this.
- No, there are no words. So, tell me, now that people
are going to see you in France, alright? Now that people are going to know
that you're in one of Nolan's films, you're going to get new offers, right? Ah, yes. Ah, yes, I'd really love to shoot a French film. Timothée Chalamet, 18, I can play football, I can do taekwondo, I speak English, I speak French, I can dance, a little bit. Yeah, I'd really love to. THE ACTOR WHO ALWAYS
MAKES YOU LAUGH Steve Carell, because in The Office, I think that every almost scene he has is very funny and not in an exaggerated way, but rather in an awkward way. It's a little bit hard to describe,
but it's always really funny. YOUR BEST MEMORY ON SET In Call Me By Your Name,
there's a scene where, it takes places at Lac Guarda, and Armie is holding this statue's arm and I take it and we shake hands. The environment, this day, when we watched the film, it struck us as beautiful. And we were here, telling ourselves:
"We're working", but it was just a blast. YOUR FAVOURITE FRENCH FILM To me, there are four films. La Grande Vadrouille. The 400 Blows. The Party. Lola. Oh, it's not Lola? Ah, shit.
