Timothée Chalamet Covers GQ

Timothée Chalamet is on the cover of the new issue of GQ. The young actor is on the cover to promote his new film, WONKA. Highlights from his interview are below.

On trying to not change every aspect of his life: “People are going to roll their eyes that these are actual problems to have, but that is an interesting challenge, to have to feel as though, for your life and your work and your art, these are things where there actually shouldn’t be an evolution. It’s like Bob [Dylan]. The Dylan metaphor is going electric. Now, the great thing about going electric is that was in the name of art. That was an act of rebellion and a push in a musical direction that happened to be… So I don’t want to say… God, it’d be so ironic to talk so much about acting and the art and the work, and then get caught in a loop about the demands of a public life. But…”

On the death of his grandma: “She was always so supportive of my career and she was also the voice in my ear to just live as normal a youth as possible. But then when she left, I saw that my laptop had died. And that was just a little metaphor for how scattered I was during that period – like, I was present to the conversation, but couldn’t even keep it together enough to chronicle it.”

On being inspired by Austin Butler during Dune: Part 2: “..he was already talking like Stellan Skarsgård.I can’t overstate how inspiring it was to me personally. Because here was someone who’s a little older than me, but generationally we’re similar, and I don’t know how he would put it, but his journey was different to mine. But he takes the work incredibly seriously. And I feel like I hadn’t seen someone my age, whether it was in drama school or on set, that did take the work that seriously but then after ‘cut’ wasn’t, you know, in some show of how seriously they took it – and instead is this tremendously affable, wonderful man.”

You can check out even more from his interview here. WONKA opens in theaters on December 15.

Source: Cass Bird/GQ