Timothée Chalamet Interview! A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. Timmy talks singing as Bob Dylan!

Hi, Timothy. How are you today? How are you doing, Lauren? I'm doing well. Good, good. You look fantastic. Timmy, I think you should be extremely proud of this film. I thought it was one of the most memorable and incredible performances I've seen this year, so congratulations to you, first of all. Thank you. I really appreciate you saying that. Yes, I love your rendition of Girl from the North Country with Monica. It's been on repeat since it dropped on my Apple Music. I'm curious for you as an actor, what do you love about being able to live sing on set, and how did that help you connect with Bob? I just, you know, as closely as possible, considering this was a movie, and we were shooting it 67 years after all of this happened, it was able to put me in his shoes as closely as possible, whether it was with old guitars from the time period or old microphones from that time period or shooting in theaters that existed at that time and have been around for a long time. You know, it was getting as close to the real deal as possible and then trying to bring life to it, which is the whole expression and artistic exercise of making a movie, anyhow. Yeah, you and James did a beautiful job bringing the story to life. Yeah, absolutely. I hope you got to keep a harmonica or something. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Oh yeah, for sure, for sure. I have to say, you've played some of my favorite characters in novels and in cinema. Of course, Laurie in Little Women and Paul Atreides. But when you're playing someone like Bob Dylan, a real life person, there's that extra sense of added responsibility. So I've been wanting to ask you this question. I'm curious for you, what is the hardest role or character that you've kind of had to leave behind? Who's been the hardest to leave behind for you? Man, that is a great question. That is a really good question. I don't want to be too specific about any role because I can't be doing Bob Dylan press and explaining everything, I actually felt. But I can say some are, you know, if you're really going through something tremendous and painful as a character, those are easier, maybe. I wouldn't say easier to leave behind. You know, I take it back. It's probably hard with all of the roles you played. I mean, something dramatic like Beautiful Boy, I don't know if that was like easier or hard to kind of leave behind. You broke up, I'm kidding. Yeah, yeah. Last question for you. The scene between Little and Little Women, between you and Saoirse, Joe and Laurie is easily one of the best scenes in cinema. Romance lovers and cinephiles both love it. You're someone who's worked with a lot of incredible women, obviously here with Monica and Elle. So what do you love about working with incredible women in your films? And I love how you're- I was thinking about that the other day, because at the Gotham Awards, I was, there were so many, you know, fabulous women I worked with. And I had the curious thought that I, you know, I got to work with Austin on Dune. Let me not leave anybody out. I'm trying to think of all the young men I've worked with. You know, but I did have that thought recently, you know, I've been so lucky to work with such fabulous actors and actresses. And I think I've maybe like worked with some, like, you know, if you want to throw Meryl Streep in there too, like I've really worked with like so many, so many goats. Yeah. For sure. That's like a two hour podcast if we really wanted to. Next time, Timmy, I'll book you for a podcast, but they are giving you the wrap. Thank you so much for your time today. And I am so excited for people and audiences to see your performance in A Complete Unknown. James Mangold's one of my favorite filmmakers, and I think you guys should collaborate again. You guys were incredible together. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Timothy. Bye.