In a prolonged new cowl story for GQ magazine, Timothée Chalamet reveals that Tom Cruise despatched him an e mail after they met following the manufacturing of “Dune” during which Cruise provided up an inventory of all of the stunt trainers, motorbike coaches and extra that Chalamet may attain out to.
“He mainly mentioned, in Previous Hollywood, you’d be getting dance coaching and combat coaching, and no person goes to carry you to that normal as we speak. So it’s as much as you,” Chalamet recalled. “The e-mail was actually like a conflict cry.”
Chalamet is a big Cruise fan, admitting to watching “Prime: Gun Maverick” eight occasions in theaters whereas in Budapest filming “Dune: Half Two” in the summertime and fall of 2022. The actor even purchased out a movie show to deliver the entire “Dune” forged and crew to see Cruise’s blockbuster.
“’Prime Gun’ was simply massively inspiring to me final summer season once we had been making ‘Dune’,” Chalamet mentioned. “A few of the crew had been form of scoffing at going, however I simply thought it was one of many biggest movies I’ve ever seen.”
Whereas Chalamet didn’t affirm whether or not or not he received in contact with the stunt trainers Cruise really useful, “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve positively noticed a change in his main man from “Half One” to “Half Two.”
“Motion-wise,” Villeneuve mentioned, “I felt that he was way more educated than in ‘Half One,’ and prepared for the preventing sequences. I used to be impressed by his degree of self-discipline for ‘Half Two.’ You understand, when you find yourself the lead on a film, there’s a presence, the best way you method your work and your self-discipline will essentially have a ripple impact on the remainder of the crew. He was the primary one on set, all the time prepared. And I used to be tremendous happy and impressed with how Timothée actually embraced that self-discipline and have become, for me, an actual main actor on this movie.”
Cruise is a subject Chalamet has no downside talking about, whereas he will get a bit extra bottled up when the topic of Armie Hammer is introduced up. Chalamet and Hammer grew to become shut pals whereas starring collectively in “Name Me by Your Title,” however Hammer’s profession faltered after he was accused of rape in March 2021. Then personal messages between Hammer and a number of other girls leaked on-line, revealing the actor’s sexual fantasies equivalent to cannibalism. These hit at a time when Chalamet was gearing as much as play a cannibal in “Bones and All.”
“I imply, what had been the possibilities that we’re growing this factor?” Chalamet mentioned, reflecting on a time when Hammer’s personal life and his film grew to become synonymous with each other. “It made me really feel like: Now I’ve actually received to do that. As a result of that is really primarily based on a e book.”
When requested how he personally processed the allegations in opposition to Hammer, Chalamet advised GQ, “I don’t know. These items find yourself getting clickbaited so intensely. Disorienting is an efficient phrase.”
That’s the extent to which Chalamet mentioned Hammer, which is greater than the actor needed to say to Time magazine within the months instantly after the rape allegation in opposition to Hammer was made. “It’s a query worthy of a bigger dialog, and I don’t need to offer you a partial response,” he mentioned on the time whereas declining to remark. Hammer has lengthy denied all legal wrongdoing.
Head over to GQ’s website to learn extra from Chalamet’s new cowl story.
