Rising star Timothée Chalamet has been featured in a cover story for GQ Magazine that was just published. The interview was done primarily to promote “Dune: Part Two” which would’ve opened in a few weeks.
That relatively recent delay to March next year however must’ve come too late to stop the magazine from locking its cover story which they’ve gone ahead with. It’s an extensive piece, but one packed with various bits of interesting information.
First up, he confirms he’s a massive fan of “Top Gun: Maverick” to the point of watching it eight times while shooting the “Dune” sequel and even renting out a cinema so he and his fellow cast and crew could watch it – calling it “hugely inspiring to me”.
He also says after the first “Dune,” Tom Cruise sent him a lengthy e-mail that included a rolodex of experts he might need for stunt training:
“He basically said, in Old Hollywood, you would be getting dance training and fight training, and nobody is going to hold you to that standard today. So, it’s up to you. The email was really like a war cry.”
That paid off in “Dune: Part Two” as director Denis Villeneuve noticed the improvements in Chalamet’s prep. Villeneuve says:
“I felt that he was much more trained than in Part One, and ready for the fighting sequences. I was impressed by his level of discipline for Part Two.
You know, when you are the lead on a movie, there’s a presence, the way you approach your work and your discipline will necessarily have a ripple effect on the rest of the crew.
He was the first one on set, always ready. And I was super pleased and impressed with how Timothee really embraced that discipline and became, for me, a real leading actor on this film.”
Chalamet also says he’d been working with the team that helped his co-star Austin Butler prepare for “Elvis” to prepare him for his own take on a famed musician – namely his role as Bob Dylan in the James Mangold-directed biopic “A Complete Unknown”. That included work with a dialect coach, vocal coach and movement coach.
“Dune: Part Two” is slated to open in March next year, whilst the Bob Dylan biopic hasn’t set any dates as yet.
