Oh, this movie is so good.
It's so good.
It may be my favorite movie so far this year.
Wow.
That's how I feel about it.
I texted you--
Yeah.
--after I saw it and said how much I-- by the way,
you were on a plane with a friend of mine and his baby,
you were playing with his baby and--
Oh, cool.
I have two of my own babies so I'm pretty well practiced.
I see a baby and it's just a natural instinct.
He said you are very sweet.
OK.
So I-- this is your first time here.
Welcome.
Yes.
If I explode, everybody, forgive me.
Awe, well, thanks.
I hope that-- you're doing very well right now, you're into--
Well, I'm still in--
You should have seen him in the green room.
Yeah.
He's not even joking.
I'm in one piece so far so, yes.
Oh, well, thanks for being here.
Thanks for having us.
So I love small independent movies.
I just-- I love small movies.
And I thought, oh, I'm just watching this small movie
that not a lot of people will see.
It's getting Oscar buzz, you're winning all kinds of awards,
and the performances are amazing,
and I'm so excited that people are seeing this movie.
Because I really thought it was just a small movie,
and it's getting a lot of exposure.
So tell everybody what the movie is about.
You want to--
No, you take this, nothing you can do now.
No, you do it.
All right.
It's a love story.
It's basically-- I play a graduate student who's
finishing up his doctoral thesis and goes
to stay with a family, a very well-educated, sort
of like polyglot family, of which Timothee plays Elio
their son.
And over the course of this beautiful summer,
you just get to watch two human beings fall
in love with each other.
And it's--
Who wouldn't fall in love with this guy right here, right?
Yeah.
It's-- so the movie is about the two of you having like this
amazing chemistry.
You had never met before.
And-- and so-- and you had one rehearsal.
And the rehearsal was--
Hilarious.
Well, we hadn't had a really proper rehearsal yet.
Armie tells us that our--
Armie tells the story better than I
do so I'll let him cut me off at a certain point.
But, you know, we were rehearsing the villa,
we were-- where we shot the film,
where the film takes place.
And Luca, our director, one day says, OK, let's do rehearsal,
we're going go into the back yard, join us.
And so Armie and I are very enthusiastic.
We had our scripts, and we went in the back, in the backyard--
And we get out to this sort of like patch of grass
and he goes, OK, we'll rehearse right here,
let's just pick a scene, let's do scene 71,
and he just kind of arbitrarily throws out a number.
So we go, OK, great.
We go to our page, and we get to the page on the script,
and all it says is Elio and Oliver roll around
in the grass making out.
[LAUGHTER]
And we kind of look at each other
and we're like, all right.
All right.
Here we go.
That's why we're here.
Let's do this.
So we kind of get down on the ground and start
making out, you know, and--
It's a little awkward, it's awkward.
--he goes-- he goes no, no, no, no, no, no, stop, stop, stop.
What are you doing?
And we go, I don't know, we're trying to make out.
He goes I want you to make out like you
want to make out with each other, like passionately.
And we're like, good direction, yes,
that's exactly what we should be doing.
Let's do it.
So then we started making out and then we're making out,
and we're making out, and we're making out--
And making out.
--and no one's saying stop.
And all of a sudden, we both kind of stop,
and we look, and Luca had just walked away.
[LAUGHTER]
And just left us like that, rolling around in the grass.
[LAUGHTER]
And that was our only rehearsal.
That's hilarious.
Yeah.
It was a bit of an icebreaker.
Yeah.
Destroyed the ice.
I heard that you had a little bit of a problem because
of razor burn?
That was your biggest--
That's true, Yes.
Oh, yeah.
Now you understand.
Armie didn't have to deal with it
because I am on the cusp of manhood
and I don't really shave yet.
So that's all right.
But this is-- there's a beard going on.
Yeah.
That's a real thing people deal with.
Oh, yes.
I'm sure many people here know about that.
I don't anymore but I did.
[LAUGHTER]
Well, you dodged a bullet.
That's mainly why.
That was-- it was
That was the main reason?
That was-- it was number one, and there
were a couple of others.
But-- so-- so has your wife seen the movie yet?
She has and she loved it.
I mean, she loved the movie, she loved the book,
she called it one of the sexiest books
she's ever read in her life.
It is.
It's one of the sexiest movies and it's beautiful,
the scenery, everything.
And has your family seen it?
My parents have seen it.
My grandma has yet to see it.
I think she's going to be in shock when she does but--
Don't tell her anything about it, just make her watch it.
But-- but it really is.
Because I really-- I know Armie, but I didn't know you.
And you're heterosexual.
And I was like, the commitment and the beautiful way
you told this story, and especially
knowing that you're young, and you're straight,
and you did this, it made me love you even more.
Because that was a beautiful job.
Well, thank you, Ellen.
That's like-- that means the world coming from you.
I really mean that.
Yeah.
No, it really was.
And I have the tremendous gift of absolutely nobody knowing
who I am.
So I thought if this doesn't work then--
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
Onto the rest of life.
Well, when anybody sees this, you
are so sexy in this movie, you really--
you really--
Yeah.
--are.
OK.
You are.
I mean, yeah.
[AUDIENCE CLAPPING]
Oh, my God, it's going to be a lot harder looking you
in the face now.
No, I knew it--
I feel--
--like the girls are going to go crazy,
guys are going to go crazy.
It really is.
You're-- you're amazing.
And you learned Italian for this, you learned piano,
you learned guitar.
I mean--
He's got all kinds of skills that you don't even know about.
No.
Well, you know--
What the hell does that mean?
All right So there's a clip of you being a rapper
that I understand that we have that--
Yes.
--let's-- let's take a look at the clip of you being a rapper.
This makes me so happy.
[VIDEO PLAYBACK]
Look at me.
[INAUDIBLE] Bout to hit them with a [INAUDIBLE] Let's
do a problem, let us see.
The probability you see me on TV.
10000 trillion percent.
I'm a statistical wonder, a statistical gem.
One in a zillion.
[INAUDIBLE] than a million.
[END PLAYBACK]
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
The back story behind that-- the back story behind that
is that that was a school project
that he had to actually turn in for a statistics class.
So everyone else wrote out all these big stories
statistics papers and all that.
And he turned in this awesome rap,
and the teacher only gave them like a D plus on it.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
Shame on you.
Wherever you are, shame on you.
Wherever that teacher is.
Yeah.
And let's not forget that you are sexist risk taker.
Yes.
Let's not forget about that.
I thought we were just embarrassing Timothee.
[AUDIENCE CLAPPING]
You should both be proud of all of your accomplishments.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
Now, I knew he was sexy, and I knew he took risks,
but I didn't know he was the sexiest risk taker.
Sexiest risk taker.
Oh, my God, I hate you.
No, there's other risk takers.
He's the sexiest.
[NO SPEECH]