Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler may play sworn enemies in ‘Dune: Part Two,’ but off screen, they’re all about that bromance. They discover they have more in common than they realized, from their first acting gigs with Disney to their experiences hosting SNL. The actors also go behind the scenes of ‘Little Women,’ recall the wildest headlines they read about themselves, and reveal their skincare routine.
Be sure to check out ‘Dune: Part Two,’ in theaters March 1st.
Be sure to check out ‘Dune: Part Two,’ in theaters March 1st.
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00:00 My style icon.
00:02 - Mine's Timothy Chalamet.
00:03 - Woo!
00:04 - Yeah.
00:05 - Oh yeah.
00:06 Hey, I'm Timothy Chalamet.
00:07 - And I'm Austin Butler,
00:08 and today we're gonna let Elle ask us anything.
00:11 - Pew.
00:14 My first job in life was a show business job.
00:18 I hate to admit, I wish it was something more exciting.
00:20 - What was it in show business?
00:21 - It was a commercial for Disney Channel,
00:24 and they cast an English language speaking kid,
00:26 a Spanish language speaking kid,
00:28 and that was the French Canadian audience.
00:29 - Oh yeah.
00:30 - I had a dialect coach for one line,
00:32 and we shot in Disney World at 3 a.m.,
00:35 'cause that's the only time in the park no one's there.
00:36 - How old were you?
00:37 - Nine, eight or something, yeah.
00:40 And then I went back to school, you know, bragging about,
00:43 had been in a commercial, no one believed me,
00:44 and it didn't air enough for anyone to see it, so.
00:47 My mom still has the commercial.
00:48 - I gotta see this.
00:49 - Yeah, yeah.
00:50 - My first job was,
00:52 I've never had a real job other than acting.
00:54 The first time I was ever paid as an actor
00:55 was on Hannah Montana.
00:56 - Wow.
00:57 - So Disney, something Disney as well.
00:59 - Legendary.
01:00 - Yeah, it was an episode where she gets set up
01:02 on a blind date, I'm there, and at first she's excited,
01:06 and then we're watching a horror film,
01:08 and I'm terrified during the film, just screaming.
01:10 - That's good.
01:11 - Just losing my mind, so.
01:13 - That's good.
01:14 - It turns out to be a bad blind date.
01:15 - Okay.
01:15 - Yeah.
01:16 - Strangest thing I've done to prepare for a role,
01:18 there's things, in Little Women,
01:20 there's an ice skating sequence where Saoirse Ronan and I,
01:22 where there's no ice, and we're on our sneakers,
01:25 we're literally just,
01:26 - Really? - We have to go like that,
01:27 skating through a tennis court in Boston,
01:30 and on roller skates.
01:31 - So it was just filmed really close.
01:33 - It was filmed really close, but yeah, it felt,
01:35 it's one of those things, movie magic, you're on sneakers.
01:37 - Yeah.
01:38 Wow. - You know.
01:40 - I remember Tom Hanks always saying,
01:42 "It's gonna feel fake in real life,
01:44 "but look real in fake life."
01:46 - Perfect.
01:47 - Yeah, I always think about that one.
01:48 - Yeah, that's a good one. - That's one of those moments.
01:49 - That's a good one.
01:50 - Who's my dream co-star?
01:54 I mean, well, I got to work with him.
01:55 - Man.
01:56 - Yeah, but I'm curious, I'm actually curious.
01:58 - My dream, I mean, you got to work with Mark Rylance.
02:01 Mark Rylance is up there for me.
02:03 Joaquin, I mean, obviously Leo.
02:05 Yeah, there's a number of different ones.
02:08 - I agree with all three of those.
02:10 I would definitely go Joaquin, too.
02:11 That would be really exciting.
02:13 - He's amazing.
02:14 - Right now, I'm gonna go with Kenny "The Jet" Smith
02:18 on "Inside the NBA TNT,"
02:20 because I feel like he has varying style,
02:23 but he's also very bold and confident
02:24 about when he just wants to rock sneakers with a suit,
02:27 and I admire that.
02:28 - Mine's Timothy Shalimer.
02:29 - Woo!
02:30 Woo!
02:32 Oh, yeah.
02:34 - What is one red carpet look that I regret?
02:38 - I wouldn't say red carpet,
02:39 but there was a rapper named Lil B, the bass guy,
02:42 who was famous for wearing this pair of Vans
02:44 that were incredibly beat up,
02:46 and I was inspired by that,
02:47 so I had a really nasty pair of Vans
02:49 kind of coming out of high school.
02:50 I remember I went to a thing once,
02:52 I mean, there was holes in the bottom of the Vans.
02:53 I wore 'em in those socks,
02:55 and that's when I see 'em,
02:56 I'm like, "Man, that looks nasty."
02:58 You know, "Look dirty."
02:59 - There was holes in the bottom of the shoes?
03:00 - There was holes in the bottom of the shoes.
03:01 - Wow, and did you wear the holes into those shoes?
03:04 - Yep.
03:04 - Wow. - Yeah.
03:05 I had them brand new, and I rocked them so much.
03:08 I remember doing a play when I was really young,
03:11 like the first play I ever did called "The Talls"
03:13 when I was 15,
03:14 and religiously not reading the reviews,
03:17 and just thinking, "This will affect my state of mind
03:19 "during the show."
03:20 And then the play ended, and I was like,
03:22 "Okay, I'm gonna read the review."
03:24 And there was like three,
03:25 and I was like, "Oh, I could've read these."
03:27 (laughing)
03:28 "It's not affecting me at all."
03:30 - There was a strange one when I was doing press,
03:32 and I was in Japan for a second,
03:34 and I flew back to LA,
03:35 and then somebody called me and said,
03:38 "What happened in Japan?"
03:39 - Oh no.
03:40 - And, "Well, there's a headline that says
03:42 "that you knocked out Ezra Miller in Japan or something."
03:45 - What?
03:46 - And, completely untrue.
03:47 I've never met them.
03:49 Yeah, so that was-- - What?
03:50 - It was one of those that you just don't know
03:52 where that kind of stuff comes from.
03:53 Yeah.
03:54 - That's nuts.
03:55 - Yeah, crazy stuff like that.
03:56 - That's crazy.
03:57 - Yeah, thankfully that wasn't true at all.
03:58 - Yeah.
03:59 - Canteen with water in it.
04:04 - That's so smart.
04:05 - Yeah, one of them backpacks with the--
04:06 - Yeah, yeah, camelback.
04:08 - Camelback.
04:09 - Yeah, umbrella.
04:10 - An umbrella for the sun.
04:12 - For the sun.
04:12 - Okay.
04:13 - Yeah, sun tan lotion.
04:14 - I was like, "Wait, the one thing you really don't need."
04:17 - Rain boots.
04:18 - Rain boots.
04:19 - A rain jacket.
04:20 - No, no, yeah, umbrella for the sun.
04:22 - Umbrella for the sun.
04:22 - Or like a tent, maybe.
04:24 - A tent, sunscreen.
04:26 - Yeah, sand castle making materials.
04:28 - Sand castle making materials, a little rogaine.
04:30 Rogaine for fade wrap.
04:31 - Handle with care.
04:37 - Handle with care.
04:38 - Fragile.
04:39 - Fragile.
04:40 [laughing]
04:41 Fragile inside.
04:42 - Yeah.
04:43 - What's one role I wish I had auditioned for?
04:46 I think back to something like "East of Eden."
04:49 - Yeah, oh yeah.
04:50 - That really impacted me at a young age.
04:52 - How did you see that so young?
04:53 You just found it?
04:54 - My dad watched tons of old films.
04:56 - Yeah, that makes sense.
04:56 - He always said, "Turn the classic movies on."
04:58 We'd watch a movie every night.
04:59 Do you have one that you think of that you--
05:01 - Sure, you can relate.
05:02 There was a point in my career
05:03 where I felt like I wasn't getting.
05:04 - Yeah.
05:05 - You'd see a young man in something and go,
05:08 "Oh, I didn't even have a crack at that."
05:09 - Yeah, get close to that.
05:10 - Yeah.
05:11 - Yeah.
05:12 I remember asking you and Christopher Walken,
05:17 because I was so scared,
05:18 Christopher Walken just said, "Just read the cue cards."
05:20 - Yeah, that's good, actually.
05:21 - So I mean, that was--
05:23 - It does take a lot more than that,
05:24 but that's what he told me.
05:26 - I mean, I remember the first time doing that,
05:28 there's so much lore around it.
05:29 Everyone sort of has a piece of advice
05:32 that's done it or works there,
05:33 and I was very receptive to that,
05:35 'cause you wanna soak it all in.
05:36 I remember halfway through the first time I did it going,
05:38 "Oh, this is like doing theater."
05:40 - Yeah, yeah.
05:41 - And I could've been on my heels more.
05:42 And then this time, right before I went out,
05:44 I was feeling nervous,
05:45 and I noticed that Woody Harrelson had written,
05:46 "Did I already say this to you?"
05:47 - Oh, yeah, yeah, what did he say?
05:48 - I remember that Woody Harrelson wrote,
05:50 "I'm terrified right now,"
05:51 right next to the name, put Woody Harrelson.
05:53 And I read that right before,
05:54 and I was like, "Oh, that makes me feel good."
05:56 Yeah, I was like, "All right, I'm not the only one
05:57 "that's (beep) this right now."
05:58 - So comforting to know that--
05:59 - So comforting. - Everybody else
06:00 feels that fear.
06:01 - So nice, yeah.
06:02 - Yeah.
06:03 (light music)
06:05 It always depends on the person you're playing,
06:07 where you kind of bring stuff around you.
06:09 I mean, usually a script,
06:11 I have that with all my notes in it,
06:12 and that's sort of--
06:14 - Guide.
06:14 - Of all the homework that you've done--
06:16 - Yes. - To get you to that point.
06:18 Do you have something that you always bring to set?
06:19 - No, you know, actually headphones.
06:22 - Headphones, yeah. - Yeah, I always bring--
06:23 - Yeah, that's a good one. - Headphones, yeah.
06:24 (light music)
06:27 I really don't have one.
06:28 I mean, I try to use moisturizer now,
06:29 'cause I've read the articles.
06:32 The younger you start, the better it is in the long run.
06:35 I'm of the perhaps incorrect scientific opinion
06:37 that the more your body gets used to something,
06:40 you know, if you take it away,
06:42 if ever there's the apocalypse,
06:43 you don't wanna break out.
06:44 - You don't wanna break out during the apocalypse.
06:47 I also don't really have a skincare routine, you know.
06:49 Sometimes put some oil on the face.
06:51 - Nice. - Get a good oil.
06:53 - Nice.
06:54 - I always feel luxurious when I do that.
06:55 - Nice. - But I don't do it
06:56 all the time. - Okay, just on special--
06:58 - Yeah, just on special occasions.
06:59 - Special occasions.
07:00 - If I wasn't an actor, I'd like to be a chef.
07:04 Fun, 'cause it feels like art,
07:07 but you're creating it for somebody else to enjoy.
07:10 - Fine, meditator, for sure.
07:12 Yeah, what about you?
07:12 Would you, if you weren't an actor?
07:14 - If I wasn't an actor,
07:15 I would definitely be a lice picker.
07:17 - Seriously? - Yeah, I've said it before.
07:19 It's like-- - I was not expecting
07:20 you to say that.
07:22 - I'm like half joking, but my mom, you know,
07:25 showed me that in first grade.
07:26 It's like, what do you wanna be?
07:26 - Yeah, yeah. - That was the thing I put,
07:28 but I guess 'cause a lot of kids,
07:29 there's a breakout in my school,
07:30 and it was either this. - Yeah, yeah.
07:35 - Or that, yeah. - Wow.
07:37 - I find creative inspiration from about,
07:41 just about anything, you know, and everything.
07:42 I think the feeling I get from creative inspiration
07:45 or seeing good movies or listening to good music,
07:48 I trust that in my life more than just about anything.
07:51 The feeling I get from being inspired,
07:52 it's like, it's the backbone of my life.
07:56 It is.
07:57 - But when you feel that, you just lean in,
07:59 and you just follow your curiosity.
07:59 - Oh, man, it's like, and curiosity's such a good word
08:02 because I talk about that a lot.
08:04 Depth of curiosity is the depth of imagination,
08:06 and as you get older, all right,
08:08 here I am on my Brooklyn hipster high chair,
08:11 but like, yeah, as you get older,
08:13 like, the incentive is all there
08:15 just to start tuning off the curiosity
08:18 to get in your habits, just naturally.
08:20 - I heard this thing the other day.
08:22 I mean, talk about being up on a high chair,
08:23 but aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort,
08:26 how you can get so used to the same things
08:30 and want the same things and not listen to new music
08:33 and watch the same show and just kind of make your life
08:37 as comfortable as possible.
08:39 - It's been the proudest moment of my career so far.
08:42 I think back to doing my first play in Los Angeles,
08:47 and my mom was in the audience and looking down
08:49 and seeing her, and that was so special,
08:50 and being in Cannes for the first time,
08:54 and my dad had never been outside the country.
08:56 - Wow.
08:56 - We hadn't seen each other yet, and he had just arrived,
08:58 and I look at my father, and he's on the carpet
09:01 in a tuxedo out in Cannes, and I was just like,
09:04 this is so surreal, and I can't believe it.
09:06 - That's the first time you saw him in France?
09:07 - First time I saw him in France.
09:09 - And he was sped up?
09:10 - And he'd never been out of the country,
09:11 and it was so special.
09:13 - That is.
09:14 - That was really cool.
09:15 Yeah, do you have a moment that sticks out to you
09:16 as the most?
09:17 - It was at Sundance, and the movie ended,
09:20 and this will sound ridiculous 'cause I was young,
09:21 I was like 21, but I was like, ah man, finally, I feel like.
09:26 And again, now it sounds ridiculous to me
09:27 'cause I'm like, man, I was so young,
09:28 but at that moment, I felt like I had been
09:31 really just like searching for something
09:36 that would resonate, and if you're not a writer
09:38 or a director, and you're just an actor,
09:39 it's like the delivery of that, it's sort of beyond you.
09:42 All you really have is your energy and your ambition
09:45 in some way, and your artistry and your vulnerability.
09:48 So all those other things, the completion of the movie,
09:50 the editing, let alone how it's received,
09:52 let alone what festivals it gets into,
09:53 it was so beyond me, so to feel like that.
09:56 And then in different ways, the positive ways
09:59 that it was received, I was just like,
10:00 exhaled in a huge way, and felt like,
10:02 all right, trust your, trust your instinct.
10:05 Yeah.
10:06 Thanks so much for watching.
10:07 And be sure to check out Dune Part Two.
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