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Timothee Chalametgrew up around artists and witnessing their lifestyles actually dissuaded him from pursuing acting.
Chalamet said that the opposite was true.
“No, it actually terrified me of becoming an actor.”
Timothée Chalamet at the 2025 Golden Globes.Credit:Amy Sussman/Getty
TheDuneleading man also said his father discouraged him from performing too much as a child.
“It’s no place for a child, it really isn’t.
I think my dad was more just like, ‘Be normal.'”
Anderson Cooper and Timothée Chalamet on ‘60 Minutes’.CBS
“It’s a school that champions the arts, so there I doubled down,” he said.
“I was not a distracted kid as a teenager, like maybe to a fault.
You know, I wasn’t partying I don’t say that to come off as straight-laced.
To a fault, I was very focused and driven.”
“I was struggling,” he said.
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Cooper asked Chalamet what he’d say to Dylan if they ever crossed paths.
“You know what?
That’s bulls—, I’m going to take that back.
I wouldn’t.”
Maybe I would make a run at out-Bob him," he said.
“[I would] not bring anything up around him about the movie.
Maybe just talk about the weather and what his favorite sandwich is.”
Watch Chalamet’s full60 Minutesinterview above.
