Timothée Chalamet hopes that his big-screen partnerships with Denis Villeneuve will final for a few years to come back, even if they’ve already produced two profitable movies collectively. He additionally has no qualms in reminding the auteur of his objectives.
Chalamet gave Villeneuve a Visionary Award for his work on Dune: Part Two final 12 months, becoming a member of Amy Adams, star of Arrival, on the Palm Springs Convention Centre stage on Friday night time.
In doing so, Chalamet referred to as Villeneuve a “terrific director I used to be dying to work with to a father determine, to a mentor and an in depth good friend, and somebody I like to softly remind each couple of weeks, often over textual content, that God forbid something occur to Denis or myself, ‘Can you be the director I work with most in my profession, and might I be the actor you labored with probably the most in [your] profession?’”
Chalamet then joked that Jake Gyllenhaal, who additionally acted in Villeneuve’s back-to-back movies in 2013—Prisoners and Enemy—appears to be in an in depth race with him.
“If you have a look at the precise variety of manufacturing days, I’m within the lead on that,” Chalamet teased. He later joked: “With apologies to Jake Gyllenhaal as soon as extra, who’s within the earlier, smaller films as a result of as they’ve gotten larger, it tends to be me who’s the lead.”
On a extra severe observe, the Dune trilogy star revealed that he has recognized Villeneuve for roughly eight years. Despite their creating intimacy, the actor clarified that the filmmaker remains to be a thriller, a “uncommon artist” that’s onerous to classify or determine.
“I do know he’s deeply enthusiastic about his work and maybe as an anomaly of the occasions, he’s non-public about his ardour for his work,” Chalamet stated.
“His work is between he and the work. He doesn’t put on his profession like an armor. In truth, his normal armor is identical pair of military cargo pants and a linen white costume shirt. Like most of the nice artists of our occasions, what makes Denis tick is past me. … I do know that he’s intrinsically heat, fast to snort with an enormous coronary heart, and I do know he throws himself into his work, and but he stays a Quebecois enigma to me.”
In closing, Chalamet stated he can be driving again to Los Angeles later within the night together with his “award within the backseat, listening to a podcast.”
