Over the next six months, Timothée Chalamet will star in two blockbusters: he will first play the ultimate chocolatier in Wonka in December, then will return to Arrakis in Dune: Part Two which was postponed to March 2024 due to the actors’ strike. But in an article from GQ made before the strikes, the actor couldn’t help but think about his next big role, that of Bob Dylan.
These days, Timothée Chalamet explains to GQ that he is “working hard on Dylan” to prepare A Complete Unknown, a biopic of the musician which will be directed by James Mangoldof Walk the Line. He would have notably reread Dylan’s memoirs, Chroniclespublished in 2004, and would have trained with a team made up of the star ofElvisAustin Butler, with whom he plays in Dune : Part Two. They first met over Zoom during a casting reading, where Timothée Chalamet confirmed to GQ that Butler was no longer the voice ofElvis which allowed him to be nominated for the Oscars. “No, he already spoke like Stellan Skarsgård “, declared the Franco-American about the character of Butler, Feyd-Rautha, son of Baron Harkonnen played by Skarsgård. “I cannot emphasize enough the inspiration he has given me personally.”
The actor continued to praise his colleague’s dedication, telling GQ: “Because there was someone who was a little bit older than me, but we were generationally similar, and I don’t know how he would say it, but his background was different from mine. But he takes his job incredibly seriously. And I feel like I hadn’t seen that in someone my age, whether at drama school or on set, who took the work seriously but then after been cut, wasn’t, you know, showing how seriously he took it – and who, instead, is this wonderfully affable, wonderful man. »
Tom Cruise sent her ‘the most wonderfully inspiring email’
Timothée Chalamet called on the various coaches of Austin Butler – Eric Glass for singing, Tim Monich for the dialect and Polly Bennett for the movement – for his own preparation: “I worked with his entire team Elvis for my Dylan preparation,” Chalamet told GQ. He said he had not yet met the 82-year-old singer, but was willing to do so. “Three years ago, I didn’t want to do it for superstitious reasons,” Chalamet said. Today I would love to do it. »
The 27-year-old also took inspiration from all over Hollywood, including Tom Cruisewho sent him “the most wonderfully inspiring email” after filming Dune, in 2021, which included a list of experts he could employ, including a stunt trainer and a helicopter trainer. “He basically said that in old Hollywood you received training in dancing and fighting, and no one would hold you to those standards today. So it’s up to you. The email was really like a battle cry,” Chalamet told GQ. He then revealed that he had seen Top Gun : Maverick eight times in theaters, before calling it “one of the greatest films I have ever seen”.
But it’s the new generation of actors who give Timothée Chalamet the greatest sense of camaraderie in the industry: “I feel like for a while there were only older people in the room around me, he said. People I love, but who are just, generationally above. And there was a point where – I don’t want this to be misinterpreted – I felt like I didn’t have any peers. » What has changed with Dune : Part Two, in which the actor plays alongside Austin Butler, Florence Pugh et Zendaya. “It was incredibly valuable to spend so much time with Zendaya and her assistant, Darnell [Appling]and when Tom [Holland] Also came on set, Chalamet said of Zendaya’s longtime boyfriend. They are up to the task. They are good in Hollywood. It’s a Hollywood full of energy. And then Austin and Florence. I feel like I’m creating a community of people who care about the right things. »
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Originally published on Vanity Fair US
2023-10-19 05:34:57
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