Timothée Chalamet and Harry Styles talked masculinity, acting and political pressure in a brand new chat.
In a new piece for i-D Magazine, the One Direction star became the latest celebrity to turn interviewer as he called up Chalamet with some very important questions.
The visual similarities between Chalamet and Styles have been noted by fans, who have long waited for them to talk. And now they have – about everything from Call Me By Your Name and *that* scene, to politics and the world around us.
Here are five of the best bits from the interview…
On Chalamet’s role in Beautiful Boy
Chalamet’s next starring role is in Beautiful Boy playing teenage boy Nic who spirals into drug addiction which soon has him flee his seemingly “perfect” life. The film itself is based on the memoirs of father and son David and Nic Sheff.
Speaking about the role, Chalamet admitted that the party “stayed with him longer than he thought it would”.
The 22-year-old said: “After the last day of shooting, I had the strangest walk home. I didn’t even live it, Nic and David did, but I still felt really affected, drained and a little devastated.
“The movie isn’t a downer, because it is really redemptive and hopeful, but it did feel like a punch to the stomach.”
On Call Me By Your Name and that scene
Chalamet shot to fame in Call Me By Your Name, released last year, in which he played Elio alongside Armie Hammer as Oliver. So good was his performance that it earned him the youngest Best Actor nomination at the Oscars in 80 years.
The actor teased that there could be a sequel on the way, saying that he would love the “challenge”. However, it is possible that peaches may be banned after Chalamet admitted that he still can’t eat the fruit without thinking about that X-Rated scene.
He added: “That’s the most awkward scene to see with your parents in the whole world. My poor father…”
On masculinity on screen
Chalamet and Styles’ conversation soon moved on to masculinity on screen and the “changing concept” of what it means to be “masculine” with the duo speaking from their screen experiences in Call Me By Your Name and Dunkirk.
It was a question Chalamet admitted he was wanting to ask Styles too, who spoke about growing up with his mum and his sister.
Chalamet said: “There isn’t a specific notion, or jean size, or muscle shirt, or affectation, or eyebrow raise, or dissolution, or drug use that you have to take part in to be masculine. It’s exciting. It’s a brave new world.
On pressure to be political
While Styles asked Chalamet if he feels a “pressure”, the young actor explained that he feels it as more of a “responsibility”.
Chalamet added that people his age “are more engaged” and that we are “living in inspiring times”.
On the meaning of life
Perhaps the ultimate question to end an interview – musings on the meaning of life, and why we’re here.
Keeping it short and sweet, Chalamet replied: “Live and let live. Love deeply. Love openly."
