Heartthrob Oscar-nominee Timothée Chalamet and tween bait Harry Styles jumped on the celebrities-interviewing-celebrities trend for the sold-out “Superstar” edition of i-D Magazine.
Although the two have never met in person (the interview was done over the phone), the 22- and 24-year-old waste no time jumping into the hard-hitting heart of humanity’s problems — mostly the toxicity of social media — along with life’s lighter fodder: go-to karaoke songs, Kobe or LeBron, sleeping naked. Oh, yeah, and they ponder the meaning of life.
Here are the top five moments from their man talk:
1. Clevelanders deserve more respect than New Yorkers
Although Chalamet loves New York so much that, when he returns to his native city, “I kiss the tarmac,” he has more respect for non-New Yorkers or Angelenos. “I’m often fanning over Kid Cudi, because he’s from Cleveland, and I have tenfold respect for the idea of coming from somewhere that isn’t LA or New York,” the “Beautiful Boy” star tells Styles.
2. ‘Dunkirk’ was no day at the beach
Don’t be fooled by the bleak World War II film’s waterfront setting: it was no spring break. “When they told me we were doing a movie on a beach, I had very different ideas!” Styles says. Chalamet agrees: “It looked like such a barren landscape. It didn’t look like a vacation at all.” Even worse than thinking a movie about a bloody battle would be a break? “Watching it, I kept thinking, ‘Oh, man, I hope Harry doesn’t think every movie set is World War II ships!’”
3. When professing your love, size matters
Chalamet cautions about admitting your most powerful feelings, “You might scare someone away if you went too big.” Styles concurs, saying little love admissions are “a much more real way in which that would happen.”
4. Social media is just like Tetris
Confused by the dynamic of social media? Chalamet and Styles have some analogies to help you survive. “It’s the caricature of someone at a party scrolling through Tetris,” Chalamet says. Styles, meanwhile, prefers the metaphor of “a house party, where there are three people who are great and 23 people who aren’t that nice.”
5. And the meaning of life is …
Per Chalamet: “Um… Ah…that we’re all only here for so long. Live and let live. Love deeply. Love openly. And know that the wise man knows he’s ignorant but cultivates more understanding.”
Well, there you have it, folks.
Stay tuned for a follow-up in a little over a decade: “I want to be able to have a conversation with you in 15 years time,” Chalamet says. He better be there promptly, since, as he points out, actors “literally have to show up at a certain time.” Styles may be late though, because “musicians operate at their discretion.”
