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-Timothée Chalamet.
Always good to see you, buddy.
Thank you so much for coming back to our show.
-Thanks for having me back. -You got such a great energy.
Every time I run into you, you're always --
-And you were surprised backstage, right?
-Yeah, I was. -I scared Jimmy backstage.
Because he knocked on my door, I went "Aaaah!"
[ Laughter ] -You were right behind the door.
Normally, I knock on the door, and then, open it up
and walk into the dressing room. I opened up, but you --
you were right there and jumped out at me, yeah.
-I had been waiting. I was there.
-I wanted -- How long were you waiting for?
-For three hours. [ Laughter ]
-I want to ask you about this photo here,
because we've had Kim Kardashian on the show and Pete Davidson,
and they were talking about this night.
There's a picture of you guys
out to dinner with Kid Cudi and Kanye West.
-Okay. So, Kid Cudi is my favorite artist ever.
I wouldn't be acting without him.
I wouldn't pursue this crazy career,
and I just text him one morning, his birthday, and he said,
"Oh, come to dinner tonight."
I did not know that was what I was walking into.
Which was awesome but was surreal.
Had to go in the bathroom, send a couple of texts,
like, you know... [ Laughter ]
-So, you thought you were going to dinner with Kid Cudi.
-Yeah, which would've already been very surreal.
Because that's a -- You know, whenever I'm, like,
trying to have a good time,
but I'm also, like, coming off weird, like right now.
-No, no, no, no, no. [ Laughter ]
You're coming off totally normal and fun.
So, you get there and Pete Davidson's there.
Do you know Pete? -Yeah, Pete's great.
He's a fellow New Yorker.
Just did a movie with my sister, actually."
-Oh, really? -Yeah, Judd Apatow movie.
-No way. -Yes.
-So, it's you, Pete, and Kid Cudi.
And then, how do you know if Kim and Kanye are coming?
-Well, I got there, and I had sneaking suspicion,
but they weren't -- there was not enough seats for everyone,
so I thought I was gonna be safe.
And then -- Not safe, but it was.
[ Laughter ]
And then, we're hanging out, and then it feels like
there's an earthquake in the restaurant,
but it was -- it was -- it was, like, epic.
You know, you can feel the, like --
-The energy shift.
-You turn around, and I was like, "Holy [bleep]"
You know, 'cause, like,
I feel like I'm in this now a little bit.
But then, I'm like, "I can't -- I can't feel, like --
I feel like too much of a fraud or something."
So, I'm like, "What?! This is nuts." Yeah.
-That you were sitting with Kid Cudi and Kanye?
Or Kim or what? -All of them, man.
I'm not -- I'm not -- -And where was this? What room?
-Well, that's in a back room at that point.
You know, I went to the bathroom.
Seriously, I sent a text to two friends, and my words,
like, "Does this make sense?"
And they were like, "Man, 16-year-old you
would slap the [bleep] out of you.
Go back to the table." [ Laughter ]
And I went to the table, and then, like --
And then, it was fun. It was a good time.
And then, you have enough, like,
random whatever they have on the table,
and then you forget about all of it, anyway.
-Yeah, exactly. It's fun, yeah.
-Now don't do that. It's not a healthy way
to deal with it, but in that moment, yeah.
[ Laughter ] -With 16-year-old you,
what would you be doing, if not acting?
-I'm not good at anything else.
That's the only thing I'm, like, decent at.
I mean, like, my mom's a dance teacher,
so maybe something in the arts,
maybe, like, dancing or something.
-'Cause I do have a photo of you in a dance -- a dance thing.
It's pretty awesome. -That's --
This is you at the National Dance Institute.
This is you as Cupid. [ Audience "Awws" ]
I mean, I think you have a future.
Timothée. [ Cheers and applause ]
Come on! How cute is that?
You got good form, buddy.
What do you remember about this?
-I remember absolutely nothing. [ Laughter ]
-Come on! -That's not even me!
-Come on. Come on.
No, it's not even you. Just a random kid, yeah.
-They just brought that up. No, that was surreal.
That's actually at my high school
that I went to, eventually, so the first time I was
on that stage was at the high school I went to.
And nobody would care about that,
but that's something I remember.
-No, people do care about that.
I saw somewhere, we were reading up on you,
and it said on your résumé, your acting résumé,
you put things on there like -- besides acting --
skills that you could do. -Yes.
-One of them, I think, was dance.
Maybe one of them was chess, I want to say?
-It was random. My mom used to fill out
my résumé, so they have special skills,
and you go in for auditions. -Chess. [ Laughs ]
-Like, no casting director's gonna be like,
"This kid plays chess! Let's put him in a movie."
[ Laughter ] -"Can you fake chess?"
-But it was a lot. It was like, chess, bike riding,
you know, swimming. Like normal [bleep]
Normal things. Sorry, sorry.
-You can't say that word. -Sorry, sorry, sorry.
-Do you know how much money you're costing NBC right now?
Oh, my God. [ Laughter and applause ]
It's gonna hurt the opening weekend.
Trust me, buddy. -No!
-No, no. But we saw that on there.
And one of the things that's on there was juggling.
-Juggling, yeah. I used to be able to know --
Well, maybe, I --
But you have juggling balls right here?
[ Cheers and applause ] -I'm just saying...
Now, I don't know anything. I can't do --
I can't do it at all.
I'm terrible. I really have no clue.
Can you juggle? -Let's take a shot. Okay.
-Yeah, it's Timothée Chalamet juggling.
Giving it a shot. [ Cheers and applause ]
-All right.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Come on, bud! Come on, dude.
You already had your spot.
It's like a talent show here. -Like a talent show.
-It's like a talent show.
-What would your juggling equivalent be?
-What, do I just?
-Like special skill, weird, random thing.
-Oh, I have the worst special --
I don't know what my special skills was.
My special skill was -- I guess I do impressions.
That was my -- -Well, dude, you're the host --
This is amazing. -I know, but if I'm gonna be
in a movie, you don't need somebody
who's gonna do impressions. -"Fever Pitch."
Who's seen "Fever Pitch" here?
[ Cheers and applause ]
Yes, no. -Stop it!
-No, I'm not gonna get into anything.