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Brut India
  • 5 days ago
"I don't want to act for actors, I want to act for people."

He speaks fluent French and dreamt of being a soccer player as a child. Instead, he became a movie star. This is the story of Timothée Chalamet.
Transcript
00:00I'll be lucky if I get an acting experience like this again.
00:02I'll be lucky if I'm a part of anything that's received to this warmth again.
00:05Maybe I'll watch this video ten years from now and this will be my glory day.
00:08And if so, so be it.
00:10Timothy, right in front of you, right in front!
00:13🎵
00:29I think movies can sometimes get lost in a coastal vacuum.
00:32I've often thought to myself, I don't want to act for actors, I want to act for people.
00:59🎵
01:29🎵
01:37I immediately understood that it was a class act.
01:41Someone extraordinary, completely unique, a wonderful actor, a wonderful person.
01:45🎵
01:53It's a love story, it's a celebration of love.
01:55And actually what makes this movie so special is, I think, the lack of a violent oppressor or deterrent to this love
02:02that's so present in any other kind of love story.
02:05This is just a pure celebration of, like Armie said, a special summer love.
02:10🎵
02:23Luckily, now with Beautiful Boy, and last year with Calling By Your Name, but also with Lady Bird,
02:27these things are taking on a social message and a social reasoning.
02:31To be here on account of important messaging, or so it feels at least, that's awesome.
02:39🎵
02:58🎵
03:23This was the honor of a lifetime for me.
03:26And I like how Zendaya just put it, in some way I just had to be guided,
03:30even though it was a project size I hadn't been on before.
03:34And every person, every artist I'm fortunate enough to sit up here with right now,
03:39and maybe I shouldn't admit this, but I was able to lean on each one emotionally at some point.
03:45Now I'm proud to call these, you know, my sisters and brothers.