Timothée Chalamet on The King, his "Story So Far" and... being mistaken for Tom Holland!?

BBC Radio 1 you've appeared in two Best Picture nominated movies that's Lady Bird and call me by your name mm-hmm you've been nominated for an Oscar for the latter you've been nominated for a BAFTA for your work on beautiful boy you're soon to be seen in Greta Gerwig Little Women you've been cast as Paul Atreides in June that's Dennis feel nervously take on the seminal sci-fi classic you will appear in web Aniston's new ensemble drama the French dispatch and your latest the King will you play Henry the fifth you'll let me get this right 23 yes sir how does that feel um feels good good good and and hopefully just getting started yeah be honest with me did you take this role just because your middle name is how no but that was uh okay hey I'm glad you know that thank you for doing that the no III their roles that terrify you and I think those are good to do sometimes I don't get to do the things that feel like they're in your wheelhouse but I read this script for the first time and I felt like wow this is an excellent script yeah it's one of the best scripts I've ever read but I I'm sure whoever does it's gonna have a great time doing it and then read it again trying to see myself in and feel felt like 40% of the scenes I could see myself in or something but the other 60% I was like I don't know what they're thinking and but that was terrifying and exhilarating and ultimately terrifying and in the idea that eventually I was gonna be speaking about it on BBC and speaking about in this country because uh you know surprise the premiere last night nobody like drove a stake through my heart or something for being an American trying to do this role I do have to ask you though about like tackling account to like this I've actually got a list here what I think were the biggest challenges for you again do let me know you need to add any others into this list you've got to walk in a suit farmer yes like with the chainmail and all the play yes then you've got a fight in a super fun yes then you've got to walk and fight in a suit of armor and this is one of the best bits in the movie during a bike mud bath I mean that was crazy yes in addition to that you've got a play hung over maybe that's not right you've also got archaic dialogue the English accent all of this emotional trauma I'd be having if I had that bulk up plus resisting the temptation to correct Robert Pattinson on his French accent you want to be like well we kind of say it more like this but do your thing I just feel like this also having the Shakespeare connection were you trying to step away from the traditional way of tackling these three absolutely and that's why I love the way you frame that question because everything you just listed for like a checkbox and a necessary one at that not that not the Pattinson point but everything was like that and that those all felt necessary check button though you know boxes that get checked but historical fact cannot be taken as narrative or good storytelling and that was the scariest thing was thinking I'm going to try and do Henry the fifth and I'm gonna try and work on this and only do it to get it as it would have been because it isn't blasphemous to be boring but sure but you got to make it live - you got a like it's it's it's made to be seen what do you think will be the fondest memories of shooting this film like in years to come because you are working with a great cast and you are going to these battle scenes for me that's a dream come true that's sort of cinematic experience of being part of a battle like that it's amazing oh yeah that was the best though I mean you just said it was that was the best part that's like I remember being in drama high school and they said like if you appear to be on red carpets or to do a big you're in the wrong place cause that's not what acting is about who do you think now is the most famous person in your phonebook if you were to go to your phone is it like Jefferson Bill Murray um I mean if you've got Steve Carell alone that would be pretty cool yeah and then I do have Steve sent me an email for his birthday last time we spoke you mentioned to me that he saw that I was excited about June and he went just wait till you see the cast list you were knocking I wasn't wrong all right okay you were not kidding do you think you'll ever get starstruck again was that gone no I get starstruck continuously and I'm nervous about ever getting accustomed to it but I'm grateful for is I think you get I think that erosion happens when you see through the facade of whatever it is you're doing but I haven't had and I'm this the part of my career I'm most grateful for I haven't had a neutered and homogeneous you know like I'll respect to these bigger studio movies like in dune will be one of them but shows press junkets that are whatever like massive machines everything I've done has felt very unique and Jannik and we and that's also by way of luck - yeah because I went up for these bigger things I just didn't get them at the time and they call me but her name was really the thing that like helped really get me going and that movie had a thanks to look we've got a near the director had a real like root feeling real organic feeling I can't believe you changed it again oh I changed it a little bit yeah why I just played it the way Bru zone he would have played it if he'd altered lists version and what is wrong with box the way Bach would have played Bach never wrote it for the guitar in fact Wren even sure Bach for last I read somewhere that Paul Thomas Anderson said that call me by your name was his favorite film of 2017 oh yeah when you hear stuff like that do you almost feel like you're kind of distanced from your body and you're just going oh that's cool yeah absolutely it's nothing to do with me but cool man that's exactly how I feel especially in regards to him and and he's like the greatest living director or one of them you know and uh so you know and I just saw animal Netflix a short yeah that's a real pinch me moment and we're lucky on the American side on their side of the pond that we have someone like that that's such a you know incredible storyteller and and and stories that are often uniquely I don't to say American but they I think they call him the Bard of the San Fernando Valley or something yeah I mean that film means so much to so many people myself included I've got friends at work who they watched the film they read the book they watched the film and they read the book yeah you know here it's this humongous thing but when people spot you in the street or they bump into your events what sort of moments what sort of questions you get asked about that movie the questions is relate to the narrative I don't get so much anymore at the time was more about that you know scene with the father at the end of the movie yeah right now there's sorrow pain don't kill it I'm with it the joy you've and where will it go from here will there be a second that's that's the main question will be the second one will there be second the dancing scene people must bring it off yeah they get yeah they do hear me yeah they think I'll have to write in a new one just to go back to this film um I just wondered whether having wrapped up in complete what feels I'm imagining like an epic like challenge to complete this movie did you get to keep any mementos from it like I'd be the guy saying to the producer so this sword yeah I mean is it going anywhere right could I have as the sword would have been a I feel dumb because you're right the source should have been the thing I grabbed but I I grabbed the helmet instead the hella thick metal helmet and I have I have it's a period chain I was assured but it kind of has a contemporary feel to it okay would this amazing journey you're going on what advice sticks in your mind as being the best you've been given so far I don't know I don't know because I don't know that I almost feel like there's two requisites to the job there's like the actual creator there's the the doing of it you know she's you know I want to say I mean it feels blue-collar II and all I mean by that is the the day to day event yep because ultimately it is like a dream job and an awesome thing to work on and the and then the other side of it is this this kind of field and this I don't feel like there's great advice almost to be had because it is all you know wacko and then like totally weird and and and awesome too because it means people are carrying what we were doing but it's harder to gauge but in the creative process like Edie Falco is a great actress from Nurse Jackie and Sopranos she gave a Q&A at a drama school I was that somebody said what's your process she said I don't know I just do it and I love that because I felt like that's not pretentious and that's not you know indecipherable that's just like you know that makes sense is there any truth in the in the IMDB trivia or I found here that you saw Heath Ledger's performance in the Dark Knight and he thought I think this is giving me the courage to go ahead and do it and yeah that's totally drew I mean I saw that with my mom my grandma in Times Square I just felt like I wanted to be doing exactly what that guy is doing the only as good as the world allows them to be I'll show you when the chips are down these are these civilized people they'll eat each other see I'm not a monster I'm just ahead of the curve but I like to maybe this speaks to Christopher Nolan's amazing directing in the kind of world he's able to build in those films is that's like a a wild performance that feels all the more while and visceral because his movies are mmm have that clean structure or something and so yeah I always wanted to and still want it and do parts like that but I mean what one day however many years later you would be yeah using Joker have you seen the new one or no I have I'm still thinking about it oh yeah I can't wait I feel like he's the greatest the like him and Bale Denzel Leo and I mean there's a whole list that's like there and you've probably met them all right so when fans do bump into you on the street or do they typically say some people know a lot and are well researched and some people it's more like we I know you from something you know and go to school we go to school together or like oh you're you're you're the spider-man you tell me I really know it's not me I love the idea that they don't say you're Tom Horner they go you're the spider-man right no I guess I've never gotten that but I've gotten I haven't gotten the spider-man guy but I've got um which is awesome though he's a great guy and [ __ ] awesome spider-man agree to the best Batman what did Law & Order teach you huh what did want to teach me that that I don't know law and order was like the mothership to New York actors for a long time I gave everyone employed it was it was like a rite of passage it was like a stripe - I really felt that way - that's my first real gig was to be on Law & Order so I don't know I could already see the extraordinary professionalism I was working with Anthony Anderson and Jeremy Sisto and they were like they were like to me they felt like just like huge stars but then I immediately sought professionalism line memorization all of it there was an immediate lesson there like Oh clearly their lives are really cool but there's a good degree of or a great degree of work that goes into - how hard is it to not like properly laugh out loud seeing Joel dancing wearing a white penny yeah oh yeah with his top off no I was laughing yeah yeah because that laughs felt so real it was like didn't even know the camera was on like he's properly going was properly going for it he's going nuts and Joel is what a great act I'm true great human great I got so lucky in this movie Sean Harris Robert Pattinson Ben Mendelsohn yeah these are like these are well versed well experienced like leathery yeah actors and and I was I'm was maybe projecting my anxiety before the movie started I thought were thinking they're gonna like you know eat me alive basically for being this young guy that's trying to be the lead and play King and I only had their support and I'm very very grateful for that because uh they could have they could have it could have been something harsher and it wasn't it was everyone wanted the movie to be good and I guess I didn't I guess I was fearful I look what what shouldn't you be there's nothing wrong with fair you know itself thank you so much you men think I mean a real treat to go here you know I'm you've done so far and race relations on the film I appreciate it thanks for watching if you liked that then do watch these videos or you can listen to my podcast called radio on the screen time oh and do not forget to hit that subscribe button you can now get more radio one in your life by downloading the BBC sounds app or the BBC iPlayer app search for full-length versions of these 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Length: 12min 46sec (766 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 28 2019