Chalamet and Nolan
It’s interesting to think that Timothée Chalamet and Christopher Nolan have already worked together. Now, it would be a big collaboration, but Chalamet would play the younger incarnation of Tom, the son to Matthew McConaughey’s character in Nolan’s sci-fi film Interstellar. The timeline in Interstellar would jump around as McConaughey travels further from Earth and in one segment, Chalamet would have just a bit of screentime while Casey Affleck would become the older version of the character.
Chalamet’s love for Interstellar
Variety reports that the Marty Supreme star recently interviewed his director at a special screening of Interstellar in IMAX 70mm in Los Angeles. Chalamet would take the time to tell Nolan how much he still loves the film out of all on his resume. Chalamet told the audience,
Though my role is not enormous in Interstellar, I think I was number 12 on the call sheet, this film came to me at a time in life, in my career, where things were certainly not set yet. And it’s remained my favorite project I’ve ever been in. It’s the film I’ve seen the most of, of all the films ever made in human history.”
Chalamet admitted that he “wept for an hour” when first seeing the movie, in addition to discovering that his role was also trimmed down. Chalamet explained to the audience, “This was a script [Nolan’s brother Jonathan] wrote for Steven Spielberg. When I got the part, I googled the project. The original story was about a father and his son, so I thought, ‘Oh man, I made it!’ And then obviously they reworked it and young Tom was a smaller part, but that’s okay.” Nolan would quickly respond with, “Never believe what you read online!”
More on Nolan and Spielberg
Nolan would then explain how Interstellar went from being a Spielberg project to his own. He expounded, “Right after we collaborated on ‘Dark Knight,’ my brother got the job and went to work with Steven. I get to call him Steven. He’s Mr. Spielberg to you. He worked on it for a lot of years. It had incredible ideas and moved through all these different iterations, but until Steven was ready to make it, whatever it is, it never quite got that momentum. Steven went off to do another film, so it became available.”
