- Timothy. Lovely to see you.
- Lovely to see you.
Cheers.
[mugs clink]
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- We're in a diner.
Do you cook?
- I can make breakfast.
I can make good deviled eggs.
- Do you make French food?
- I can eat Ratatouille.
[man chuckles]
I can eat French food.
I, I'm not a great cook.
That's something that I think, as I adultify,
that'll be a good...
..thing to get good at.
[man chuckles]
Do you cook?
- No.
- Really?
- I can barely boil an egg.
- Okay [chuckles].
How do you boil an egg?
- Two minutes hard boil...
..soft, I think.
[man chuckles]
So you're back in your hometown, New York.
How does it feel?
- It feels good to see the city back to life.
First real summer here in two years.
- Wow.
- Happy to be home happy.
Happy to be with family and friends.
- Where have you been in the past two years?
- California, Hungary...
..um...
..going back to Hungary now,
England, Kentucky, Ohio, Nebraska...
..little bit of everywhere.
- How many movies have you made in that period?
- I guess three.
I had a small part in Don't Look Up.
And then uh...
..I did a film with Luca,
Bones and All.
And then I shot Wonka,
which is a Willy Wonka origin story.
I just finished that in London.
[bell dings]
Thank you.
- Thank you
- Timothy, what do you do on your days off?
- Right now, just trying to reconnect with old friends.
It's hard trying to hit the pause button.
[bell dings]
- Milkshakes!
- Thank you.
Mm. This looks delicious.
- How do you choose these incredible roles?
- I feel like early on in my career,
I just wanted to work on things that were great,
regardless of the size of the role.
And it often meant working with a great director.
I guess I'm trying to go where it's not obvious to go.
And I feel Wonka is symptomatic of that.
- My teeth okay?
- Your teeth are perfect.
Let's see.
[man giggles]
- You're the first man to be
on the cover of British Vogue.
And I remember for me it was a no brainer.
I was like, who is it?
Who sort of represents now...
..who is sort of loved by people of all ages.
Somebody who was so first,
and great at the idea of imagery and translating characters.
And it was you.
- The way you responded to Bones and All,
and the way that the styling of the shoot
was inspired by that.
- It's inspired, yeah.
- Were a women's magazine.
So to have a guy be in it,
it's always like the fantasy, isn't it?
- Mm hm.
- Cause the reality is you deal with Women's Wear every day.
- Right.
But we got Women's Wear in there too.
- Oh, I mean we practically are Women's Wear.
- Yeah, yeah.
[man laughs]
- But if, the beauty of the shoot,
what I loved about it was...
..it wasn't male,
it wasn't female.
What I loved, that you were able to go like, let's go,
I feel good in this.
- Yeah.
- So now that we're talking about fashion...
- Uh huh.
- ..you have such a innate sense of style.
Who, who are your style icons?
Who were your style icons growing up?
- Oh, good question.
- Then and now.
- That's a delicate question.
Not, not to give you a pretentious answer back,
but I don't...
..there was no one I feel like I revered.
I've always loved the idea that...
..you know, you can appropriately
express yourself through clothes.
- [Interviewer] I saw you at the red carpet,
at the Oscars and...
- [Timothy] Mm hm.
- ..you killed it.
- Thank you.
- Your choices are so incredible.
And I know you have great relationships with people,
like Tom Ford and Hida Hachiman.
What's your process?
- What's great with like Hida or, or Tom Ford
as you said, is they're so...
..they're so personal to the process of choosing,
you know they're not handing me something.
Same thing with Virgil Abloh.
I'm spoiled in that,
these are the best designers in the world too, obviously.
But fashion is something that,
it's always been so fun to me.
- So let's go back to Wonka.
You filmed it in England.
- Uh huh.
- Did you pick up any English accents?
- No, I wish.
- [Interviewer] Come on.
No, these people,
No, no, no.
Because...
..the thing about doing British accents,
some people can just crush it.
I will say there's this TV show, Pistol,
The Sex Pistol TV show.
- Yes. Yes.
- I'm loving it.
It's hard for me to get into TV things.
It's hard for me to get hooked into TV things and uh...
..and that one fully hooked me.
- What do you hope to be doing in 10 years time?
I know it's a, it's a bit-
- Oh, what a question.
Anywhere good.
Hopefully life takes me where...
..you know, God sees fit.
- You're on such a trajectory in your acting career,
in the fashion world.
Is there anything...
..that you'd like to achieve
that you feel you haven't so far?
- No, and...
..a wise man once said,
"if you want God to laugh at your plan, say them out loud".
So...
..I have some things but...
..I think the scary thing about achieving
more success in acting or...
..or uh...
..the fashion's fun, so I don't look at it like that,
but I'm weary of...
..vanity projects, in any direction.
- Yes.
- I fear the thing where's like,
oh that guy did good at acting.
So now he's doing very mediocre
at this other thing, you know?
- What about you?
Where do you wanna be in 10 years?
- Happy, healthy...
..and you know, still enjoying what I'm doing, hopefully.
I've got a last question for you.
- Okay.
- How does it feel to be the first man on the cover of-
- Extraordinary, man, thank you.
And weird...
..and...
..just an honor.
Like you said, it's my process.
I don't know what the process is here.
I've seen interviews of Rihanna before or, um...
..you know, Billy Eilish or Lady Gaga...
..or whoever it's, it's a, you know-
- You know what you all have in common?
You all represent like zeitgeist,
a moment in history,
a moment in time.
So when somebody looks back in 10 years or 20 years
they'll be like, oh my God,
these were the people who,
who represented that time.
It's that easy, that simple
- Wow.
- Yeah.
That's scary as fuck [giggles].
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