Timothée Chalamet has marshaled large sandworms in Dune, corralled spoiled youngsters in Wonka and wrestled Bob Dylan’s distinctive singing fashion to the bottom in A Full Unknown. However put him in the course of probably the most heated rap battle of the fashionable period and the Marty Supreme star — and potential secret rapper EsDeeKid — will admittedly fold like an inexpensive ping-pong desk.
Whereas Visiting the 7PM in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony podcast on Monday (Dec. 15), Chalamet was requested what caught with him when he interviewed Kendrick Lamar earlier than his efficiency at this 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl. “I used to be so impressed that this man who was so calm sitting subsequent to me and I used to be like, ‘wow, he’s engaged in a gladiator sport proper now,’” Chalamet mentioned of the brutal lyrical fight that KDot engaged in with Drake final 12 months that culminated in what’s extensively thought to be one of the vital brutal KO’s in beef historical past by way of Lamar’s “Not Like Us” single.
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“And as a lot as I really like hip-hop and all, I used to be sitting subsequent to [him] and I used to be like, ‘Wow, I couldn’t try this!’,” Chalamet mentioned, admitting that he couldn’t have been that calm within the midst of a “that massive a conflict” with one other big rapper and “simply be chilling… that was simply unfathomable to me.”
Chalamet recalled that the Lamar interview initially came about in a studio and that night time it appeared each males felt it was “too stiff” and didn’t actually come throughout as they’d hoped, so the following day they determined to hop in a automobile — Lamar’s GNX, after all — and check out it once more. “And my white ass was like, ‘Wow, he’s in the course of this beef.’ I used to be like, ‘Are you able to think about if that is how I am going out, with Kendrick?’,” the actor mentioned about his irrational worry that the meat may flip violent and he may catch a stray.
“‘Actor Timothée Chalamet murdered’… that might be a loopy finish of the Wikipedia,” Chalamet joked.
Watch Chalamet discuss his journey with Kendrick under.
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