They’ve already made two blockbusters collectively however Timothée Chalamet is hoping that his big-screen collaborations with Denis Villeneuve proceed for a few years to return. And he’s not afraid of reminding the auteur of his intentions.
Chalamet joined Villeneuve’s Arrival star Amy Adams on the Palm Springs Conference Heart stage on Friday night time to current the filmmaker with a Visionary Award for his work on final yr’s Dune: Half Two. In doing so, Chalamet referred to as Villeneuve a “terrific director I used to be dying to work with to a father determine, to a mentor and an in depth buddy, and somebody I like to softly remind each couple of weeks, often over textual content, that God forbid something occur to Denis or myself, ‘Are you able to be the director I work with most in my profession, and might I be the actor you labored with probably the most in [your] profession?’”
Chalamet then quipped that the race appears to be neck and neck with Jake Gyllenhaal, who beforehand starred in Villeneuve’s back-to-back movies in 2013, Prisoners and Enemy. “In the event you have a look at the precise variety of manufacturing days, I’m within the lead on that,” Chalamet teased. He later joked: “With apologies to Jake Gyllenhaal as soon as extra, who’s within the earlier, smaller motion pictures as a result of as they’ve gotten greater, it tends to be me who’s the lead.”
On a extra earnest notice, the star of the Dune franchise mentioned he’s identified Villeneuve for about eight years, and regardless of rising shut throughout that point, the actor defined that the filmmaker stays an enigma, a “uncommon artist” who’s unattainable to field in or outline.
“I do know he’s deeply obsessed with his work and maybe as an anomaly of the instances, he’s personal about his ardour for his work,” Chalamet mentioned. “His work is between he and the work. He doesn’t put on his profession like an armor. The truth is, his typical armor is similar pair of military cargo pants and a linen white costume shirt. Like lots of the nice artists of our instances, what makes Denis tick is past me. … I do know that he’s intrinsically heat, fast to chuckle with an enormous coronary heart, and I do know he throws himself into his work, and but he stays a Quebecois enigma to me.”
For her half, Adams praised Villeneuve’s dedication “to get to the center of every story, and he doesn’t draw back from difficult issues like vengeance, identification or loss. As a substitute, he races in the direction of them, bringing them to the display screen, permitting us to see ourselves, giving us the chance to insurgent, to squirm, to embrace, to roam, and to be awestruck and even to know what it’s prefer to trip a sand worm or talk with extraterrestrial guests.”
In accepting, Villeneuve praised his many collaborators, studio companions, spouse and inventive accomplice and mentioned that “our future wants extra empathy” and “cinema is among the strongest artwork kinds to generate it.”
Amy Adams, Visionary Award winner Denis Villeneuve and Timothée Chalamet pose backstage on the Palm Springs Worldwide Movie Awards.
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Chalamet made two appearances on the principle stage contained in the Palm Springs Conference Heart. After teaming with Adams to honor Villeneuve, the 29-year-old actor got here again out to simply accept a Chairman’s Award for his work as Bob Dylan within the present launch, A Full Unknown.
“The Chairman’s Award, that’s received a hell of a hoop to it man. I don’t know what I did to obtain the Chairman’s Award versus an performing award, however I’ll carry this trophy with satisfaction and I’ll be certain that my mates and my household respect me for it,” mentioned Chalamet following a tribute from Gary Oldman, somebody he encountered as they have been each within the Oscar race in 2018. (Goldman gained for The Darkest Hour.)
Chalamet talked about that awards season. “I sat on this very room seven years in the past, like Gary mentioned, and I used to be shocked to be within the firm of somebody like Gary Oldman, a person whose profession any actor may solely hope to emulate. … I keep in mind sitting in that viewers and I used to be Gary Oldman humbled and I felt overwhelmed and I felt grateful however I felt form of daunted by the alternatives in my life and the place my profession was taking me,” mentioned Chalamet, who was nominated for his flip in Name Me By Your Title. “And 7 years later, I sat right here tonight and I felt humbled and grateful however I really feel clear-sighted on the true reward of this work and an honor like this, and that’s the chance to do it once more. Nothing extra, nothing much less. A clever man as soon as mentioned they will harm your emotions in the event that they boo you, however they will additionally kill you with kindness.”
In closing, Chalamet mentioned he can be driving again to Los Angeles later within the night along with his “award within the backseat, listening to a podcast.”
The Movie Awards gala is the annual and at all times star-studded kick-off to the Palm Springs Worldwide Movie Pageant. Held on the Palm Springs Conference Heart, the occasion noticed trophies offered to The Brutalist star Adrien Brody (Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor), A Full Unknown’s Timothée Chalamet (Chairman’s Award), A Actual Ache’s Kieran Culkin (Breakthrough Efficiency Award, Actor), Sing Sing’s Colman Domingo (Highlight Award, Actor), Depraved’s Ariana Grande (Rising Star Award), Maria’s Angelina Jolie (Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress), Babygirl’s Nicole Kidman (Worldwide Star Award), Anora’s Mikey Madison (Breakthrough Efficiency Award, Actress), Dune auteur Denis Villeneuve (Visionary Award), the Conclave forged (Ensemble Efficiency Award), and the workforce from Emilia Perez (Vanguard Award) together with Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldana, Edgar Ramirez, Karla Sofia Gascon and auteur Jacques Audiard.