What's your favoriteTimothée Chalametmovie?Marty Suprememight scoop up someOscarsnext month, so that's just one educated guess...
Among the red-hot actor's upcoming projects isDune: Part Three, which hits theaters this December. While speaking with Academy Award-winnerMatthew McConaugheyatVarietyand CNN's recent town hall eventin Texas, Chalamet, 30, took time to reveal some new details about the final chapter ofDenis Villeneuve'ssci-fitrilogy, in which he stars as Paul Atreides.
"On the firstDune, we had an ornithopter sequence that I got a chance to do again in the third, but this time I was way more geared up," Chalamet told theDallas Buyers Clubstar, 56. "OnDune 3, as opposed to the first movie, I came out early and studied the control panel — all sorts of hieroglyphics and things that aren't tethered to reality. I wanted to know what each button did, and invent a dynamic for myself with it."
The recent Golden Globe winner continued, "I didn't want to be complacent about a single moment. Everything was sacred, and it was my last time doing aDunefilm, so I really wanted to treat it as sacred. Because people can get complacent, but I was more intense on the third one. It felt like that was the natural momentum, so I wanted to push against that as hard as I could."
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Chalamet also commented on co-starOscar Isaac's performance in the first movie as Paul Atreides' father.
"He treated it in a Shakespearean way — to play it heightened and not really care about it being heightened," Chalamet said, adding that Isaac, 46, had encouraged him to take "more liberty than ever."
The star ofA Complete Unknownalso admitted during the town hall that he's seenInterstellar(which stars McConaughey) a whopping "22 times or something" — and that the most recent screening was athis surprise 30th birthday, orchestrated bygirlfriendKylie Jenner.
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