At the latest screening of Interstellar, Timothée Chalamet reconnected with director Christopher Nolan and called the movie his favorite project. The 2014 science fiction film, starring Matthew McConaughey as a former NASA pilot who sets out to preserve humanity, featured a brief appearance by the actor who played Marty Supreme. As an adolescent, he portrayed McConaughey’s son; Casey Affleck portrays the persona as an adult.
“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,” Chalamet said. “And it’s remained my favourite 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.” ( via Variety)
In a humorous story about collaborating with Chalamet, Nolan recalled that during the filming of a sequence in which the main character of the film receives audio recordings from his family, the actor moved away from what was expected of him.
“When you were filming the messages from home, there was a particular thing where you were hitting a dark tone,” Nolan said. “It felt too much for me. I didn’t particularly like it. I told you about it and you went ahead and did whatever the fuck you wanted and carried on. But I was like, ‘He knows what he wants to do and has an idea.’ It wasn’t about being stubborn. You had planned what you wanted to do. You planned your choices and you didn’t want to abandon that on a casual whim for me.”
