""No, I don't indulge people like you doing crazy s***," Nolan replied. Citing a specific example, he recalled the time Chalamet, now 30, was filming the scene in which his character records messages from home for his father in space. "There was a particular thing where you were hitting a dark tone," the Inception director remembered. "It felt too much for me. I didn't particularly like it.""
""I might not have known your name," Nolan quipped, "but I knew what you were doing. 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'l"
Christopher Nolan maintains strict directorial control and does not allow actors free rein, even with Timothée Chalamet. Chalamet asked whether Nolan grants certain actors more bandwidth, and Nolan replied that he does not indulge actors doing "crazy s***." Nolan recalled an Interstellar scene in which Chalamet recorded messages for his father in space and struck a dark tone that Nolan found too much and told Chalamet so. Chalamet performed the choice anyway. Nolan observed that Chalamet had planned his choices, refused to abandon them, and tested whether Nolan would relent.
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