Timothée Chalamet & Zendaya on Fame, Fashion and Their Instant Chemistry on 'Dune' | PEOPLE

but i couldn't be as presumptuous because i hadn't got the job yet but i was like i feel like that went really well like we had like a good vibe like we you know and it felt it felt really good i did feel like like i said not to be presumptuous but i was like this feels like the right thing happening yeah i've been having dreams about a girl on a ruckus i don't know what it means dreams make good stories but everything important happens when we're awake october 22nd marks the highly anticipated us release of dune the epic sci-fi adventure film directed by denny villeneuve and based on frank herbert's classic 1965 novel fear is the mind killer my little duke where the fear is gone only i will remain timothy stars as paul atreides the young son of an aristocratic family that is exiled from their home planet to rule over the desert world of arrakis while zendaya plays chani a fierce warrior and member of the fremen tribe their cruelty to my people is all i've known what's to become of our world we met um at our chemistry read for this and uh it was just awesome it was like oh okay well there's there's johnny and uh and it was we were doing the scene if you remember on i wonder if that scene was even the movie but at one point the direction was to pull paul down and she's grabbing pull me outside okay yeah this is this is it this is it but uh it's funny i mean on set it was just great too she was like a breath of fresh air you know and we were all having a great time but she just brought her own energy and it was just like another another kick of of like an you know incredibly talented artist coming to work thanks man yeah i mean i was i mean elated when i found out that we were going to be doing it together um because i i've been pursuing kind of like that whole situation because i knew that you guys were doing it it sounded like i mean a dream which it really is you know um and lucky enough to kind of be able to get there i kind of came a little bit more towards the end while they were already had filmed so many so many things and i knew what kind of cast i was jumping into and i knew um you know denny and i've been a huge fan of his work for a long time so i was like oh okay this is what we're doing and i had to bring my a game but i mean they were so lovely uh and and embraced me and gave me such uh support really i mean denny he's like he's i don't know how he keeps so many things in his brain at once but he's able to keep track of of it all in such an organized and direct way so any question you have you know he has an answer um so i was just able to kind of lean on him for that and and so yeah and i'm just so you know so grateful that this experience has been with this guy because it's massively talented but they're they're all such lovely people like i'm so glad that you're a good person that worked out for me you know so we've been able to have fun and become great friends dune is an epic story that deals with some fairly dark moral dilemmas but on set timothy and zendaya found a way to keep things light between takes when zendaya was there it was quite easy because you've been such a good energy you know in in between action and cut we were going 10 000 but then we were having dance parties with all the actors you know everyone and um honestly what you're describing i could get lost in a little bit sometimes because the material is can be quite dark and heavy and denny was so passionate about everybody was so passionate about it and um there aren't a lot of comedic beats you know there aren't things you can like work around you know to i did feel that sometimes and um lucky for me the role i was playing a guy that is also feeling that you know on a way bigger scale on an unwitting war across the universe scale so i have to deal with that do you often dream things that happen just as you dream them yes director denny villeneuve has been drawn to the dunes story ever since he first read the book as a child naturally both timothy and zendaya had their share of artistic influences growing up as well oh my gosh that's a lot i grew up at this in the shakespeare theater because my mom she worked at once ever since i was two years old so shakespeare is like i mean actor stuff but that was my introduction to uh to acting to the theater so uh i've seen like every every every shakespeare play like a million times as a child and i loved it and i would just sit in the back with my little hot chocolate and i'd watch it and somehow i would understand it you know and i would get it and i was like i love this like i don't know what they're doing but like i want to do that like i want to be up there in some form you know um so i think uh i would definitely credit that for my love of what i you know luckily get to do now i uh i could be a bit of a broken record if i talked about the dark knight or man on the moon but the one that that's coming to me right now i saw a i saw a show called slava's snow show when i was 12 or 13 i came through new york that my mom dragged me to and with a a russian clown [Music] and i'd encourage anybody who's watching this if you go on youtube and you just look at slava's snow show this was like i think kind of in the ways that denise talks about doing or about art or filmmaking and this is like a it was a clown show but was so uh emotional and deep and insightful with no words you know and you had a whole feeder full of adults and children kind of in tears by the end and that has stayed with me a long time a great man doesn't seek to lead he's called to it what if i'm not dead you'll still be the only thing i ever needed you to be my son at 25 timothy has already built an impressive hollywood resume which includes an oscar nomination for the 2017 drama call me by your name nice to have one of these you used to yeah how can we never wear it my mother says we are jews of discretion meanwhile zendaya is also 25 and already has a best actress emmy for her work as rue bennett in the hit hbo drama euphoria i'm rue i'm jules where are you headed to home probably can i come with you obviously euphoria just blew me away you know and it was so crazy because i think when we read uh with each other on dune i think denise somehow maybe sam levinson or at centennial he was like holy she's in the show that's coming out that is out there this is the feeling i've been searching for my entire life for as long as i can remember because suddenly the world went quiet and um you know obviously zendaya's rue incredible and insightful and just like you know what a beautiful performance a lot of the actors on that show are incredible but i think something that sam does with the tone of it he just like he he got it you know and uh i was in budapest last year on this we were just picking up one more thing and saw some young kids outside the hotel and they had all the makeup yeah and i was i was like you know really got a sense of how much that show had you know affected people well i mean again i could go on and on about this guy because uh to me it's the body of work he continuously comes with beautiful performances and it's like you know it's and and i appreciate that you say that because like you you say i just look for good things and and i think that i even felt that on set that there's not not a pretentiousness in the in the way about in which he goes about choosing things or wanting to do things has nothing to do with like oh this scale it's a good career move you know what i mean it's just like this feels good for me this feels good for my soul as an actor you know and this is going to be a challenge for me and so i'm going to take this on and i appreciate that because i think often that's not people's motivation to want to do things and i feel like you always keep the art first in the non-pretentious kind of way and and it and it shows because you deliver every time so like again is it hard to choose a favorite uh timothy chalamet project yeah it is because he's every he's ah boom band one every time so um so i'm yeah i continue to be impressed uh by your work man and i and i uh and i'm excited for the things that you have coming out because i i know it's coming and i and i uh i'm always gonna be supporting thank you for that question because you just gave me you just gave me you guys the whole resume that you guys gave me a big confidence boost put the whole resume on the list when dune premiered at the venice film festival on september 3rd the stylish co-stars turned more than a few heads on the red carpet zendaya in a leather balman gown and timothy in a sequined black crew neck and matching pants by hyder ackerman wow yeah just so grateful and you know felt like uh looney tunes in the right way you know you're just like you gotta soak this in because you cannot take this for granted for a second we are uh you know so lucky it's just like you gotta be grateful for this stuff you can support yourself as an actor in the arts period if you can pay for your rent that's a that's already a dream come true but then you get to work on stuff like this with people that you enjoy spending time with and that's that's a treat and i've been to events like that on the on the other side not necessarily film premieres but theater openings or basketball games or so i love that energy you know and at the end of the day you're not all respect to everybody in media but you're not hopefully you're not doing it for uh people whose opinions will be disseminated in large form you're doing it for like you know a kid that's gonna be inspired or something for yourself fashion is like that's what it should be you know for yourself it's like it's a form of self-expression and not to be corny or whatever it's like i i you know fashion is it's fun you know and and i think that like one thing that i actually am super blown away with in this movie is the clothes yeah jackie like much to pull from there you know so yeah we've been listening we've been talking about the clothes for this you know as soon as we've been there so the press the pressure's gonna be crazy crazy what are we wearing

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Published: Thu Oct 21 2021