Name: Why Timothée Chalamet is Selective with the Movies He Works On
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Timothée Chalamet is Selective with the Movies He Works On' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Timothée Chalamet is Selective with the Movies He Works On' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-27. Transcript available.

you're never supposed to say you're competitive but i want you know there's
been a lot of music
biopics yeah and i wanted to do a great fucking job man i love bob dylan i love
this artist
none of this is for granted this little misconception about actors too and
acting
you can have a cushy job on a tv show if you don't give a fuck about your work
it could be a great
lifestyle right you're making like high six figures maybe low seven figures and
you're just
showing up when you want if you give a fuck about what you're doing these are
these are long
ass days you know what i mean these are 14 hour days six days a week sometimes
you know three
months look i know i know people got it way harder but i want to feel that grit
you know i i want to
feel it you know i hope people don't laugh at it i fucking really i feel like i'm
the hardest working
man um anyway maybe i shouldn't say that but uh but you respect what you do
yeah because you got to
what else is the point i talk about this with friends a lot like this is too
weird a lifestyle
to be nonchalant about yeah why do this yeah if you're not going to go as hard
as possible yeah
on marty supreme i'm wearing contacts because he wanted my eyes to be little so
he gives me real
glasses that fuck my eyes up and i'm wearing contacts underneath to offset what
the glasses are
doing and my vision was my vision was basically fucked up until a day ago every
time i took these
glasses off my my vision was skewed wow you know um you're like the forrest gump
of sight or whatever
yeah yeah yeah yeah right what about do you feel like you have to be like
because you're kind of
like the the the it guy like the it younger guy in hollywood for sure for sure
you know
but does that feel like i don't know and i know it's like do you how do you and
a lot of that is a
lot of times curtailed by like the industry like you're yeah like you have a
pretty like i thought
you'd come with like in a tank or something like you drove over here by
yourself yeah so definitely um
kind of i guess maybe against what i was thinking which doesn't mean anything
um but do you worry
about how do you still be yourself and find yourself at a time when you could
be so maneuvered by um so
many bigger listen man not to bring it back to the movie but that's where bob dylan's
so influential
no this is perfect no because bob always followed his path and what's
interesting about the movie
industry instead of like as opposed to the music industry the music industry
you write your own music
you know and it's direct to the consumer in some sense like you do whatever the
fuck you want and
if people are vibing with it you'll know and whatever in the movie industry you
do kind of have
to there you you you got to be reliable you know a musician you show up
whenever you want they could
be rockstar show four hours late if you're three hours late to a movie they got
to call insurance you
cost a million dollars now you'll never work again so there's a part of the job
that's obedient in a
sense but the best art and the best shit we see is stuff that you know people
showed up for people
showed up but but also where they they broke rules in a sense you know i was
just talking to you know
yeah yeah and and and and so it's a fine line and i look at it like this this
is my inner tom cruise where
i want movies to be seen and i don't want to i don't want to live an unobedient
life but i also
want at a time where maybe hollywood or movie makers got a perception of like
um sometimes
being out of touch or something or definitely like awards type movies i want
especially a movie about
bob dylan i want in all the movies i work on that's why i did dune that's why i
did wonka and i'm proud
that those movies i'm not supposed to pat myself on the back but i'm those
movies were big you know
like in the movie industry or the movie business brick and mortar theaters they
don't they don't do the
business they once did some of that's inevitable because of streaming but i
want to put my best
foot forward you gotta you gotta give back to the industry that gave to you
that's really my mo and
that's why i'm that's why i'm here that you know you know um otherwise that's
why you can't be the
reclusive figure that bob dylan or daniel day lewis or these guys were because
the the the it's not
about the bottom line but the the attention isn't guaranteed the way it used to
be you know what i mean
i hope this doesn't sound like too inside baseball i want inside baseball i
just you know you're like
a real thinker you know so it's not like you're gonna give some answer that isn't
yeah traveling
through your thoughts and you explaining stuff yeah so that's perfect there's
no wrong way to answer it
it's a weird thing it's like yeah and then also i had a full-ass real life
before my career took off
like in the east village in new york so um not that my life isn't real now but
like obviously on these
press stores and stuff the days are micromanaged in some way but man you here's
the thing that's
another thing i say like as a musician or as a pop star whatever your music can
be about your erosion
of humanity like it could be about hey i'm driving this car and uh this is the
crazy lifestyle but if
you're an actor if you if you lose your sense of humanity if you lose your
stink for lack of a better
word people will see that on screen you do see it on screen but you seem too
fancy you seem out of
touch people are gonna know that's why the safety movie i just did man he put
me he put me through
the ringer really oh yeah i felt like i felt like he was testing me early on
what does that
mean so when somebody's like so a director can kind of put you through some he
was yeah look josh
knew me since i was 21 like josh safety safety okay i was 21. uncut gems that's
that's that movie
right yeah okay that's one of the best movies there you go man and good and
good time you know good
time with robert pattinson he directed too i haven't seen that i'm saving robert
pattinson for after
yeah later yeah yeah for sure for sure um but um you know like early on we had
stuff that could have
been stunt guys on this movie on marty supreme and i saw him wanting me to do
it and part of me was
like this feels like a test you know and i wanted to show him and then now i
feel like i've emerged
from the other side with no broken bones or whatever thank god but and and josh
i know i'm supposed
to be talking about the bob dylan movie but josh is okay it's all you yeah yeah
josh is the real deal man like
and seriously like josh he's like the modern day scorsese dang i want to meet
that guy oh dude you
would love him that's him yeah yeah yeah yeah i would like to meet him yeah he
could play abraham
lincoln he could play abraham lincoln and you play tad lincoln i could play tad
lincoln tell him right now
his brother's an actor benny you ever see um you said the nathan fielder show
with emma stone on
showtime no yeah yeah that's his brother i've seen the fielder show yeah wow
that's cool yeah yeah wow
that must have been awesome man because he's uh that guy that that uncut gyms
is so good i look
forward to seeing that yeah this is a crazy crazy so directors can do that so
sometimes it's like that it's going to be a journey