During a Q&A at London’s Prince Charles Cinema on Sunday, Timothée Chalamet said that he spent “over six figures out of my pocket” so he could be the musical guest for his January 2025 SNL appearance. Lorne originally asked if he wanted to host, and Timothée said yes but he asked if he could also be the musical guest for the same episode. Lorne said no, but Timothée said he refused to take no for an answer. Timothée paid for production expenses for the musical performance (the band and construction of the set) which are usually covered by a record label.
Timothée said that the things he does to promote his movies aren’t PR: “I really don’t look at it as promotion or marketing. I see myself as an artist expanding.” He went on to say: “I’m trying to reach audiences, you know. I don’t want to be in the pretentious in-crowd….So the most pretentious answer I could give you, which I actually honestly feel, is that it’s not marketing or promotion. That sounds like a gimmick, and this is not a gimmick. This is coming from my heart and my soul.”
When asked if he wants to win an Oscar for Marty Supreme, he said: “Listen, yes. But I want to give you context for that, because sometimes I feel like I’ve been misinterpreted in my quest. All these award things, they supplement the movie. I’m not going to turn this into a monologue about the crisis of theaters and stuff, but when you go to an awards show, everyone’s participating in an advertisement for each other — in the best sense of the word, I’m not saying that in a malicious way. I’m supporting ‘Hamnet’ and ‘One Battle After Another’ the way anyone in those movies is supporting ‘Marty Supreme.’ So anything else, yes, it helps to feed into the narrative … everyone’s pursuing it, you know?. I didn’t explain myself well there. I don’t want it to be misinterpreted that the world is in the condition it’s in and I’m going to bed like, ‘Fuck man, I need that [Oscar].’ You know, I’m living on planet Earth.”
On preparing for roles: “I feel like Method energy, that’s kind of my thing. So that just means being in the tone of the film … I think anything too calculated — some actors are like that, that’s not really my style.”
When asked if he and Kylie Jenner will ever get married, he said, “Wow, that’s so personal. Yeah, no — you’re going to get me in trouble, man.”
