Timothée Chalamet explains why Christopher Nolan put him in a headlock and gave him a noogie: ‘It was surprising’

Timothée Chalamet says director Christopher Nolan simply made him really feel a lot youthful than his 30 years.

Chalamet recalled a contented reunion with the director of sci-fi drama Interstellar at a latest screening of the movie that they each attended. He shared the expertise throughout a screening for one more of his movies, Name Me by Your Title, each a part of a profession retrospective of the Oscar nominee's work held by American Cinematheque and Cinespia in Los Angeles.

"The entire expertise with Nolan, I felt completely like 17 once more," Chalamet stated on the Feb. 13 occasion. "I went residence, it was surprising …That was a loopy automotive journey residence for me. I used to be like, 'Holy sh—, I really feel like, you realize, the 13 years that elapsed haven’t elapsed.'"

Chalamet was nonetheless a youngster when he labored with Nolan on the 2014 movie. He performed Tom, the son of Matthew McConaughey's Cooper, one of many astronauts despatched to establish a brand new residence for humankind.

"We had been taking photos collectively," Chalamet stated of the filmmaker, "and he throws me in a headlock and begins giving me a noogie. I'm like, 'Holy sh—, Chris Nolan's hitting me with a noogie proper now.'"

He reminded the Oscar-winning director that he was an grownup now. However Nolan was unmoved.

"I stated to him, 'Chris, I'm a 30-year-old man,'" Chalamet shared.

He stated Nolan had responded, "To not me, you're not."

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The boys actually bonded over their expertise making the film, which additionally starred Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Mackenzie Foy, and David Oyelowo. It was awarded an Oscar within the class of Finest Achievement in Visible Results.

Interstellar was significantly essential to Chalamet, who had but to star within the movies he's greatest identified for at the moment, akin to Name Me by Your Title (2017), Little Girls (2019), Wonka (2023), A Full Unknown (2024), and final yr's Marty Surpreme, for which he’s nominated for his third appearing Oscar on the March 15 ceremony.

"Although my function will not be huge in Interstellar — I feel I used to be quantity 12 on the decision sheet — this movie got here to me at a time in life, in my profession, the place issues had been definitely not set but," Chalamet stated on the Interstellar screening. "And it's remained my favourite undertaking I've ever been in. It's the movie I've seen probably the most of, of all of the movies ever made in human historical past."

Subsequent up, Chalamet will star in Dune: Half Three, which is scheduled to reach in theaters Dec. 18.

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