Timothée Chalamet and Matthew McConaughey came together for a unique town hall conversation hosted by Variety and CNN. The show, which aired on CNN on February 21, is now available to stream on Variety’s YouTube channel, along with bonus footage.
“A CNN & Variety Town Hall Event: Timothée Chalamet and Matthew McConaughey,” filmed in front of students at the University of Texas at Austin, marked the reunion of Chalamet and McConaughey, who played son and father in Christopher Nolan’s 2014 sci-fi blockbuster “Interstellar.”
During the 90-minute conversation, the actors talked about their memories of Interstellar, Chalamet’s role in Marty Supreme, their approach to acting, and more. Chalamet and McConaughey also answered questions from the audience throughout the evening.
“This is my favorite project I’ve ever been a part of,” Chalamet told McConaughey about “Interstellar.” “I think this is your greatest role. I know you came out of ‘Dallas Buyers Club,’ but for me that movie was the genesis of how you carried yourself on set and how seriously you and Christopher Nolan took this movie. That movie gave me the license. Once I graduated from high school, , It’s hard to take yourself so seriously. You might feel like you’re wasting your time, or you’re stuck, or something. And I remember you had a yoga mat and you were working out. It was very strange for me to sleep on set, but I can’t thank you enough for the warm way you treated me at that time. That changed my life. ”
McConaughey responded, “Thank you, dude. You were so warm and accessible. I remember feeling like a feverish curiosity in you at the time. You were figuring things out, but whatever you were dealing with, you were just going to work your way through it.” And I think you were in a kind of lost period, where you were making choices about music and someone was putting pressure on you to say, “Maybe this is the way you want to do this.” ”
At one point, Chalamet revealed new details about Dune: Part 3, which will be released in theaters this December. He teased that the final film in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi trilogy is “the creepiest” and a “huge swing.”
Chalamet later added, “I didn’t want to be complacent for even a second. Everything was sacred, and it was my last Dune movie, so I really wanted to treat it like something sacred. People tend to get complacent, but in the third movie I was even more passionate about it. I felt like it was a natural force, and I wanted to fight it as hard as I could.”
Watch “CNN and Variety Town Hall Event: Timothée Chalamet and Matthew McConaughey” below.
