Interstellar is one of Christopher Nolan’s most successful movies, but there’s one scene he struggled with during the shoot, and that frustration was due to Timothée Chalamet’s performance.
Christopher Nolan has a pretty impressive body of work, as there’s barely a dud in his back catalogue.
Memento remains a mind-bending masterpiece, The Batman trilogy set a high bar for superhero movies, Dunkirk is one of the best war movies of all time, while we wrote in our Oppenheimer review that “it feels like Christopher Nolan’s career has been building to this.”
2014 sci-fi movie Interstellar remains one of his most financially successful pictures, grossing nearly $800 million worldwide. But there’s one scene he wasn’t happy with at the time.
Timothée Chalamet hit “dark tone” that wasn’t right for Interstellar
Interstellar stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Ellen Burstyn, and Matt Damon, while it also features Timothée Chalamet in one of his very first major movie roles.
Director and star reunited at a recent 70mm IMAX screening of the movie, during which Chalamet revealed that it’s his favorite Chalamet movie.
“Though my role is not enormous in Interstellar – I think I was number 12 on the call sheet – this film came to me at a time in life, in my career, where things were certainly not set yet. And it’s remained my favorite project I’ve ever been in. It’s the film I’ve seen the most of, of all the films ever made in human history.”
Chalamet previously revelaed he was distraught when he first watched the finished film, and saw how many of his scenes had been cut.
One that he shot – as part of the heartbreaking sequence where McConaughey’s Cooper watches messages from his family – caused his director some anguish on set, as Nolan explains:
“When you were filming the messages from home, there was a particular thing where you were hitting a dark tone. It felt too much for me. I didn’t particularly like it. I told you about it and you went ahead and did whatever the f*ck you wanted and carried on.
But I was like, ‘He knows what he wants to do and has an idea.’ It wasn’t about being stubborn. You had planned what you wanted to do. You planned your choices and you didn’t want to abandon that on a casual whim for me. You wanted to test that and challenge that and see if I kept coming back, which I didn’t. I’ll find a logic to that in the edit suite.”
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